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Latest Updates
5/8/2008
EDITORIAL: Structural Work Act 'Last Thing' Illinois Needs
The proposal is strongly anti-business, and is the last thing a state with a struggling economy needs. If Illinois wants to improve the outcomes of its workers, it needs to keep them working.
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5/2/2008
Amendment to Structural Work Act bill passes in committee
The Illinois House Judiciary Committee (Civil Law) has passed an amendment that exempts architects, land surveyors and structural engineers in a piece of legislation that re-establishes the Structural Work Act.
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4/29/2008
The lawyers-get-work act
If you're a worker in Illinois and you're injured on the job, chances are you will be fairly compensated. Illinois has what is widely regarded as an excellent worker's compensation system. But that's not good enough for the trial lawyers lobby. That doesn't make them enough money.
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4/26/2008
Bill would be a disaster
This bill allows workers injured on the job to sue third parties outside of the workers' compensation system. Only one other state - New York - has retained this arcane and anti-business and anti-consumer law.
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4/23/2008
EDITORIAL: Trial lawyers' favorite relic
Around the state capitol the Structural Work Act (SWA) is known as the "trial lawyers' full employment law."
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4/22/2008
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Structural Work Act Would Hurt Economy
While this law would result in a jackpot for personal injury trial lawyers, it would cost Illinois jobs, lead to higher costs for consumers, and have a drastic effect on our state's already-reeling economy.
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4/22/2008
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Stuctural Work Act 'Bad for Our Economy'
Every day we read that more businesses are leaving Illinois and our legislators in Springfield seem to be doing their best to send the jobs elsewhere and harm our state's economic climate. As evidence, these legislators recently introduced a bill that would bring back the Structural Work Act -- a bill so bad for our economy that it was repealed back in 1995.
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4/14/2008
Forget The Idea That House Democrats Are Responsible
The Structural Work Act was repealed in 1995 because it was no longer necessary. In fact, only New York among the 50 states still has such an archaic law on the books as the advent of OSHA and other policies have eliminated any need that may have existed.
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4/14/2008
Evidence for New Trial Lawyer Bill Just Doesn't Stack Up
Maybe someone will explain to state taxpayers why their tax dollars are being spent in courtrooms instead of highways. But any attempt to justify the reinstatement of the Structural Work Act based upon the need for deterrence is just plain hyperbole, because the evidence just doesn't stack up.
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4/14/2008
Opponents rally against revival of Structural Work Act
Fixing a problem that doesn't exist? Opponents of the Construction Safety Act think so.
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