Lewis v. Riverside Hospital

Aetna Casualty & Surety Company of Illinois (Aetna), the worker’s compensation insurance carrier for Kenneth Brock’s employer, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County distributing the proceeds from the settlement of a lawsuit and temporarily suspending future workers’ compensation payments by Aetna to the conservator of Brock’s estate. The issues presented are: whether the circuit court properly determined the amount of credit against payment of future workers’ compensation benefits to which Aetna is entitled; whether the conservator’s attorney fees were properly assessed…