Acuff v. Industrial Commission

Claimant, Frank S. Acuff, appeals from a Peoria County circuit court affirmance of an Industrial Commission’s reversal of an arbitrator’s award of compensation based upon a finding of total permanent disability resulting from an occupationally aggravated heart disease. The Commission found no accidental injury occurred arising out of and in the course of the employment. Claimant urges here that his existing heart disease was aggravated by his occupational duties, that since death from occupationally related heart abnormalities has been held compensable, disability from occupationally…