Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Workers’ Compensation Act
Citation
Case Number: 
2016 IL App (1st) 161027WC
Decision Date: 
Friday, April 14, 2017
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., WC Div.
Holding: 
Vacated.
Justice: 
HUDSON

(Court opinion corrected 6/2/17.) Claimant sought workers' compensation benefits for injury allegedly sustained while working for Respondent hotel. Parties executed lump-sum, settlement contract which provided that Respondent had paid all of Claimant's medical bills. Circuit court, pursuant to Section 19(g) of Workers' Compensation Act, is proper venue to seek enforcement of a Commission's final award. Imposition of penalties and attorney fees in this case was improper because Claimant abandoned his request for such relief. (HOLDRIDGE, HOFFMAN, HARRIS, and MOORE, concurring.)