City of Streator v. Industrial Commission

JUSTICE SIMON,

specially concurring:

I am troubled by the majority’s lack of attention to what I consider the basic issue in this case: whether dependents of a suicide victim must, in order to collect worker’s compensation, show more than that the suicide would not have occurred but for an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. I believe that Harper v. Industrial Com. (1962), 24 Ill. 2d 103, and County of Cook v. Industrial Com. (1981), 87 Ill. 2d 204, require more. They require the claimant to have lost his ability to rationally choose between life and death.

I do not…