Articles From Peter C. Wachowski | Illinois State Bar Association

A different standard must be applied for whether an injury is work-related for a “traveling employee” in workers’ compensation cases By Peter C. Wachowski Workers’ Compensation Law, October 2013 The Appellate Court reversed the trial court’s findings in Kertis v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n, when it held that the Commission erred by not applying the traveling employee standard in its determination of whether the injury arose out of and in the course of employment.

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