Sain v. Labor & Industrial Relations Commission

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff-claimant James Sain appeals from the judgment of the circuit court affirming the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission whereby it denied him four weeks’ employment benefits.

The issue: Was plaintiff’s act in filing a bogus insurance claim, based on his divorced wife's disability, a ground for firing him, so as to disqualify him from unemployment compensation benefits? This depends on whether plaintiff’s act in filing the disability claim was “misconduct connected with his work.”

Plaintiff had been employed by McDonnell-Douglas Corporation…