Cox v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n 

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Workers Compensation
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 1-09-2500WC
Decision Date: 
Monday, December 20, 2010
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
WC Div.
Holding: 
Circuit court reversed; Commission decision vacated; remanded.
Justice: 
HOFFMAN
Construction employee, while en route home from job site, went to the bank to withdraw money for personal reasons. As his deviation from the least circuitous route home was insubstantial, at the time of his acccident he had already made the bank withdrawal and was again en route home, and thus had re-entered the course of his employment at time of injury in car accident. Thus, the injuries employee sustained were arising out of and in the course of his employment. (McCULLOUGH, HUDSON, HOLDRIDGE, and STEWART, concurring.)