Auler Law Offices v. Industrial Commission

An arbitrator for the Industrial Commission denied the workers’ compensation claim of Dennis R. McKee, finding that he failed to establish that an automobile collision in which he was injured in the course of his employment was the cause of a hiatus hernia for which he sought compensation. The Industrial Commission affirmed the decision of the arbitrator and adopted it as its own. On certiorari, the circuit court of Champaign County, in a carefully prepared opinion explaining its reasoning, found the decision of the Commission to be against the manifest weight of the evidence and reversed it…