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Overview

John Harp III (he/him) concentrates his practice in workers’ compensation and has more than two decades of combined experience handling claims as a litigator on both the petitioner and respondant sides and drawing from time as a multi-jurisdictional claims adjuster. This well-rounded prespective of the insurance process provides clients with the best possible outcome for their matter whether before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, circuit courts or appellate courts.

Prior to joining Nyhan, John worked at Illinois-based firms where he managed workers’ compensation cases from intake to closure and mitigated settlement values through successful negotiation tactics. During his tenure on the respondent’s bar, John has successfully tried a number of cases before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission resulting in favorable  findings of no accident, no causation, no injury or no award.

Professional Organizations

  • Kane County Bar Association
    • Co-Chair, New Lawyers Committtee, 2014 – 2015
    • Chairman, Workers’ Compensation Committee, June 2016 – June 2018
  • Illinois State Bar Association, Member

Presentations

  • Speaker, “Deposing the AMA Rating Physician,” Kane County Bar Association/Eagle Brook Country Club, 2016
  • Moderator/Organizer, “Kane County Bar Association Workers Compensation Seminar,” Kane County Bar Association/Eagle Brook Country Club, 2017 & 2018
  • Moderator/Organizer, “Kane County Bar Association New Lawyer Seminar,” Kane County Bar Association/Eagle Brook Country Club, 2015
  • Speaker, “Workers’ Compensation Basics and ADR for New Lawyer,” The John Marshall Law School, 2015
  • Speaker, “Case Law Update,” Kane County Bar Association/Eagle Brook Country Club, 2014

News

 

Representative Matters

  • Lead counsel at Appellate Court of Illinois representing a national retailer, successfully reversed the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission in awarding surgery without medical evidence of causation. The Court found the petitioner had failed to prove her medical condition was caused by a slip and fall she had suffered while working for the respondent. 
  • Lead counsel at Appellate Court of Illinois representing a national retailer, successfully defending the respondent against the petitioner who claimed she was a traveling employee when her employment required her to commute to a different store for training while her assigned store was still under construction. John also successfully argued that McAllister v. IWCC did not extend to an injury that occurred in the adjacent shared public parking. 
  • Lead counsel at trial before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, successfully defending a trucking company and PEO against the petitioner’s claim for permanent total disability from an unwitness accident. John successfully impeached the petitioner on the stand resulting in the Arbitrator’s finding that the petitioner, as the sole witness, had failed to prove accident and, therefore, the entitre claim was denied.