Peoria County Belwood Nursing Home v. Industrial Commission

PRESIDING JUSTICE WEBBER,

dissenting:

I respectfully dissent from the principal opinion and suggest that it represents a usurpation of the legislative prerogative and purports to overrule many holdings of our supreme court while at the same time paying lip service to them.

A closer analysis of some of those opinions, as well as other holdings of the supreme court, is instructive.

The leading case in this State on the subject of repeated trauma is International Harvester, cited in the principal opinion. In that case the court considered whether repeated exposure to noxious fumes from a welding…