Odie v. Industrial Commission

The question presented by this appeal is whether the denial by the Industrial Commission of a claim under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.) for reimbursement of a physician’s fees and hospital charges for a lumbar fusion operation should be sustained. Its resolution turns on whether the Commission’s decision that the surgery was not necessary and reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of the claimant’s work-related injury was against the manifest weight of the evidence. The circuit court of Winnebago County confirmed the decision of…