Board of Education of City of Chicago v. Industrial Comm'n

This is an appeal from an award of benefits under the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, par. 172.36 et seq.) on remand from the appellate court. Initially, claimant, Phillip Stice, filed an application for adjustment of claim under the Workers’ Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.) for an incident occurring on September 5, 1979. The arbitrator found an accident but no causal connection based on the workers’ compensation application. The arbitrator denied claimant’s motion to add an occupational disease claim. The Industrial…