Illinois Institute of Technology v. Industrial Commission

The claimant, Sonya Greenberg, filed an application for adjustment of claim under the Workmen’s Occupational Diseases Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 48, pars. 172.36 through 172.62) which alleged that she was the widow of Carl J. Greenberg and that while employed by the respondent, the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Research Institute (hereafter IIT), he was exposed to an occupational disease hazard, atomic radiation, which resulted in his eventual disablement and death. An arbitrator for the Commission found that Greenberg was last exposed to the hazard on May 31, 1955, and that his…