Who We Serve
For Nurses, CNAs, Servers and Caregivers.
Healthcare and service workers are hurt at higher rates than almost any other occupation. Marker Law makes sure you actually get the workers' comp benefits Illinois law guarantees you.
Why Marker Law
The Workforce That Cares for Everyone Else
Lifting patients. Long shifts on hard floors. Needlesticks and exposure. Slip-and-falls in restaurant kitchens. Marker Law represents healthcare workers, CNAs, home health aides, restaurant and hotel employees in Illinois workers' compensation claims.
- Patient-handling back, shoulder and knee injuries
- Needlestick, exposure and bloodborne-pathogen claims
- Slip-and-fall, burn and lifting injuries in restaurants
- Repetitive-stress and cumulative-trauma claims
- Retaliation and return-to-work disputes
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Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Straightforward answers to the questions Marker Law clients ask most often about this topic.
Yes. Repetitive lifting and acute back injuries are among the most common workers' comp claims among nurses, CNAs, and home-health aides. Marker Law handles these cases regularly, including disputed-causation cases the carrier tries to deny.
Needlestick incidents are covered under workers' comp, including the cost of post-exposure prophylaxis, follow-up testing, and any long-term illness that develops. Reporting promptly through the employer's incident system is critical.
Yes. Injuries from patient assaults — in hospitals, psychiatric units, nursing homes, and home-health visits — are compensable under Illinois workers' comp when they arise out of and in the course of employment.
Possibly. Illinois law presumes COVID is work-related for frontline healthcare workers under certain conditions. Each case is fact-specific — Marker Law evaluates the exposure history and treatment record.
Illinois law prohibits retaliation against employees who file workers' comp claims. If retaliation occurs (termination, demotion, harassment), a separate retaliatory discharge claim can be filed.
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