Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Zambole

Defendant, Joseph Zambole, appeals from the order of the circuit court of Lake County which granted plaintiff Liberty Mutual Insurance Company’s motion for summary judgment and denied his cross-motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff, who was the workers’ compensation carrier for defendant’s employer, brought suit to recover $4,581.29 which it had paid to defendant, representing the amount of an award entered by an Illinois Industrial Commission arbitrator on behalf of defendant. Defendant had filed for a review of the arbitrator’s decision before the Industrial Commission on the basis that…