{"id":520,"date":"2020-04-28T18:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=520"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T21:09:50","slug":"illinois-withdraws-emergency-covid-19-workers-compensation-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/28\/illinois-withdraws-emergency-covid-19-workers-compensation-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Withdraws Emergency COVID-19 Workers&#8217; Compensation Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Workers\u2019 Compensation Commission has withdrawn its April 16, 2020,\u00a0<a title=\"Illinois Seeks to Protect Workers' Compensation Claims of COVID-19 Claimants\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/illinois_seeks_protect_workers_compensation_claims_covid19_claimants_0420.html\">emergency rule<\/a>\u00a0that would have established that all first responders and front-line workers asserting a workers\u2019 compensation claim before the commission based on exposure to COVID-19 would be\u00a0<i>rebuttably presumed<\/i>\u00a0to have been exposed to the virus through their work.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/illinois_withdraws_emergency_covid19_workers_compensation_rule_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Workers\u2019 Compensation Commission has withdrawn its April 16, 2020,\u00a0emergency rule\u00a0that would have established that all first responders and front-line workers asserting a workers\u2019 compensation claim before the commission based on exposure to COVID-19 would be\u00a0rebuttably presumed\u00a0to have been exposed to the virus through their work. To read the full text of this Duane &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/28\/illinois-withdraws-emergency-covid-19-workers-compensation-rule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Illinois Withdraws Emergency COVID-19 Workers&#8217; Compensation Rule&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,716,182,637],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employment-law","tag-first-responders","tag-illinois","tag-workers-compensation"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}