Belleville Personal Injury Law Articles

As a personal injury lawyer in Belleville, IL, people have asked me over the years: How do you become a lawyer? Recently I was asked by a representative of my old high school in Benton Illinois to go down and give a talk to high school students that...

I wanted to talk to you this month about something that has nothing to do with personal injury action or workers compensation. I want to talk to you about credit companies, debt collectors and debt consolidation groups. As a personal injury and...

I'd like to talk to you today about the subject of lawyers and what kind of lawyer you should hire for what any particular issue that you might have. First off, there are criminal lawyers, there are divorce lawyers, there are corporate lawyers,...

Today I'm going to explain something that has to do with your workers compensation case that 99% of people filing a claim run into. I'm talking about an IME otherwise known as an Independent Medical Examination. Let me start of by explaining to you...

I wanted to talk to you today about the difference between us what I'll call a civil case and a workers compensation case. Kirkpatrick Law Offices is a workers compensation lawyer in Swansea, IL and we represent only plaintiffs. By "plaintiffs" I'm...

I want to talk to you about arbitration of your workers compensation case. This applies whether you've got another lawyer or whether you're pursuing your case on your own.  As workers compensation attorneys in Belleville, IL, we understand that our clients want to...

Today I want to tell you about a particular situation so that you can try to avoid it happening to you. A while back a lady came into our Belleville Workers Compensation Law Office for a shoulder injury. After i got her medical records and things, I...

As a workers compensation attorney in Belleville, IL, a lot of times injured workers call my office and they ask why in the world they would need a lawyer to represent them on their workers compensation case. The simple answer to this is that...

As a personal injury lawyer and a workers comp lawyer in Belleville, IL, one of the questions I commonly get as far as workers compensation goes is: Can i still have a workers compensation case if i previously injured a particular part of my body...

I enjoy volunteering with the Missouri Veterans History Project (https://mvhp.net) This is an organization that documents the stories of veterans and then sends these recordings to the Library of Congress and the Missouri State Capital. We also...

What is Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)? Necrotizing enterocolitis is a devastating intestinal disease that mainly affects premature babies. The walls of the intestine are invaded by bacteria which cause local infection and inflammation that can...

Hi my name is Eric Kirkpatrick. I'm an injury lawyer in Belleville, IL, and what I would like to talk to you about today is the importance of reporting your work injury sooner rather than later. First, let's go over what the law says. In Illinois...

A lot of times people with workers compensation cases they ask me what happens if i can't go back to my regular job? What happens if the doctor releases me with restrictions but my employer won't accommodate those restrictions? Well it's a it's a...

Underinsured Motorist Coverage and Uninsured Motorist Coverage Today i'd like to talk about underinsured motorist coverage and uninsured motorist coverage. These are things that people have on their insurance policies for their automobiles, but...

Even though it's still tough to watch 20 years later, anyone can see that the seemingly endless video footage of 9/11/2001 shows Americans at their best... when life is at its worst. We see what was supposed to be a normal day in America. We see...

Trusting Your Employer in Your Workers Compensation Case Q: I've been hurt at work and now I have a workers compensation claim filed with my employer. Should I trust my employer to do the right thing and compensate me fairly? A: Workers Compensation...

Understanding Your Temporary Disability Rate In A Worker's Compensation Claim Q: Before I got hurt I worked a lot of overtime. But I've heard that employers or his insurer doesn't want to include my overtime in my workers'  compensation settlement....

Workers Compensation Mistake #1: Not Hiring A Workers Compensation Attorney “I didn’t think I would need a lawyer on my workers compensation case because I thought my employer would take care of me.” I hear this a quite a bit.  In a perfect world,...

As someone injured at work in Illinois, and any other state, you have the right to expect to work in a reasonably safe workplace even if you work and subsequently were hurt in a construction zone. Sometimes injuries happen when an employer fails to...