Boyd v. W G Wade Shows

The present case involves the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Bureau of Workers’ Disability Compensation. We hold that the bureau has jurisdiction and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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The Bureau of Workers’ Disability Compensation addressed the current dispute on a brief stipulation of facts that Willie Boyd was an Illinois resident, that he entered into a contract of employment in Michigan, that while executing his duties pursuant to the contract he sustained a personal injury and died in Indiana, and that the injury and death arose out of and in the…