Cook v. Optimum/Ideal Managers Inc.

Both of these cases present the question of whether an injured employee may bring an action in the circuit court against his employer’s workers’ compensation insurance company or insurance adjuster, or a physician retained by the insurance company, for failure to furnish the employee with a report of a medical examination conducted under section 12 of the Workers’ Compensation Act (hereinafter the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 48, par. 138.12), or for improper termination of payments under the Act. The cases have been consolidated for opinion by this court.

In No. 83—1039, Curtis Cook filed…