Petitioner Jacobs injured his shoulder at Reum Corp. and received permanent restriction related to overhead lifting injury. CNA Insurance managed Workers' Compensation Claim in Illinois for Reum Corp. CNA Insurance actions were proven to be "deceptive," according to the Illinois Worker's Compensation Commission in draft decision after trial.
“It was a battle, but that they were exposed for what the adjuster did,” stated
Chicago injury lawyer Gary A. Newland. It is highly unusual to see a draft decision so clearly find the conduct of an insurance company in Illinois to be so irreprehensible.
The award of over $150,000.00 for a minor shoulder injury clearly takes into consideration the conduct of CNA. The Petitioner was only offered $38,000.00 before going into the trial and obtained a decision for almost four times what CNA was willing to offer.
According to the trial attorney Gary A. Newland: It is good to see justice prevail especially when it is just a regular guy who decides he is going to stand up to one of the largest companies in the world. Essentially, the petitioner was owed vocational rehabilitation benefits because his job no longer existed and CNA promised those benefits and later denied vocational rehabilitation assistance even in light of the legal requirement to do so. Unfortunately, the problems faced by my client are consistent with those faced by many injured workers throughout Illinois because injured workers are vulnerable to being taken advantage of by overreaching insurance companies.
Gary A. Newland is an Illinois trial lawyer with the law firm Newland, Newland and Newland. Mr. Newland focuses his practice on workers’ compensation, personal injury and general criminal trial defense cases. He received his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1993 and was admitted to the Illinois bar during the same year.
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