Downs v. Industrial Commission

PRESIDING JUSTICE WEBBER

delivered the opinion of the court:

Claimant filed an application for adjustment of claim under the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 48, par. 172.36 et seq.). An arbitrator awarded her both temporary total disability and permanent partial disability benefits. On review the Industrial Commission reversed the arbitrator and denied benefits. The Commission found that claimant did not suffer from an occupational disease or become exposed to one, and further found that her condition was not the result of injury under the Workers’ Compensation Act…