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Articles From Guy R. Spayth, Jr.

Conflicting evidence dooms petitioner’s claim for repetitive trauma back injury By Guy R. Spayth, Jr Workers’ Compensation Law, December 2018 A summary of George Campbell v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission.
Appellate court refuses to find rain-soaked pavement a hazardous condition and denies petitioner benefits using a neutral risk analysis By Guy R. Spayth, Jr Workers’ Compensation Law, January 2018 As the court pointed out in Barbara J. Dukich v. IWCC, an employer cannot ordinarily be held liable to pay compensation for injuries caused by forces of nature which they cannot reasonably foresee or guard against, where the Petitioner is no more subject to injury from these forces than others.
Appellate court does not extend traveling employee doctrine to police officer commuting to mandatory training By Guy R. Spayth, Jr. Workers’ Compensation Law, January 2017 In Jason Allenbaugh v. IWCC, the Third District Appellate Court, Workers’ Compensation Division, refused to extend workers’ compensation benefits to a police officer who was involved in an automobile accident while traveling to police headquarters to attend a mandatory training session.

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