Bromberg v. Industrial Commission

Claimant Benjamin Bromberg, an attorney, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County confirming the Industrial Commission’s decision denying his petition to reinstate his workmen’s compensation case which had been dismissed by the Commission on July 21, 1981, for want of prosecution and for failure to perfect review.

Claimant, who had practiced law privately since his admission to the bar in 1938, began his employment with respondent, Jewish Family and Community Service of Chicago, as director of its legal aid department in June 1972. In 1978, he filed an application for…