Happy Thanksgiving from I&F

We are grateful to you for entrusting us with your needs in 2016. We hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Best wishes from your partners at Inman & Fitzgibbons.

Illinois Appellate Court Examines Mental-Mental Claim

A recent Illinois Appellate court had occasion to consider a mental-mental claim in Moran v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n, 2016 IL App. (1st) 151366WC. The facts of the claim are as follows: the petitioner, a firefighter, responded to a fire with reports of a man trapped inside. Upon arrival to the scene, the petitioner was …

I&F Celebrates Kids’ Chance Awareness Week

Kids’ Chance of America believes that a significant difference can be made in the lives of all children affected by a workplace injury by helping them pursue and achieve their educational goals. Kids' Chance is a national non-profit organization which provides educational opportunities and scholarships for the children of workers seriously or fatally injured on …

Court of Appeals finds Indiana Worker’s Compensation Board Not Bound by the IME

In a case heard earlier this year, the Indiana Court of Appeals found that the Indiana Worker’s Compensation Board and its single hearing member was not required to follow the recommendations of a Board appointed independent medical examiner. In Steven Bush v. Robinson Engineering & Oil, Co. Inc, 54 N.E.3d 1073 (2016), the employee appealed …

Stepping over the Greater Risk Line

The Appellate Court recently decided that the petitioner’s act of stepping off a concrete island onto the employer’s parking lot, while carrying a sack, did not establish a risk greater than that of the general public in McLean County Sch. Dist., Unit 5 v. Illinois Workers' Comp. Comm'n, 2016 IL App (4th) 150248WC-U. The petitioner, …