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A coalition led by the Illinois Manufacturers Association, Illinois Trucking Association, Illinois Health Care Association and others is urging immediate action by lawmakers to change BIPA.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Audio and summary
Well, the problem here is that the law as written was exactly what everyone involved in getting it through the legislature intended. They wanted the crushing lawsuits and settlements and trial-lawyer attorney’s fees, just as they do with Worker’s Compensation claims. Got nothing to do with making anything safer or more equitable. Every day in Illinois businesses “settle” frivolous and fraudulent employee-injury claims. The “injured” employee often gets a pittance – sometimes less than what they would have earned had they not stayed at home pretending to be incapacitated – while trial lawyers and expert witnesses and dueling hired-gun doctors… Read more »