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Articles From Rick Turner

Harrah’s Illinois Corporation v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n: Down the Rabbit Hole to Consider Issues of Properly Perfecting a Review and Determining Manifest Weight By Rick Turner Workers’ Compensation Law, December 2023 A summary and analysis of Harrah’s Illinois Corp. v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n.
Disputed Trip and Fall on Loose Carpet Strip Trips Up Employer Despite Conflicting Evidence on Premises Defect/Arising Out Of, Injurious Practice, and Employability/Odd Lot Theory By Rick Turner Workers’ Compensation Law, February 2022 In its decision in Mt. Vernon School District No.80 v. IWCC, the appellate court reminded us that “arising out of” in the context of a fall on the employer’s premises is usually a question of fact and the standard of review is manifest weight, as is the question of whether the Commission appropriately found a claimant permanently totally disabled on an “odd lot” theory.

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