United Airlines v. Workers’ Compensation Commission 

Circuit court confirmed Workers' Compensation Commission, which awarded claimant flight attendant wage differential benefits per section 8(d)(1) of Workers Compensation Act for a certain amount per week for a stated number of weeks, and another amount per week "continuing for the duration of the disability". Economic disability is not encompassed within the word "disability" as used in Section 8(d)(1). Commission properly refused to allow employer's expert economist to give opinions on claimant's age at time of her expected exit from the workforce as speculative and irrelevant to determination of wage differential beneifts. (HOFFMAN, HUDSON, HOLDRIDGE and STEWART, concurring.)