Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Workers' Compensation
Claimant, an employee of Cook County, filed claims for injuries to right knee occurring in three separate incidents. Commission did not err in finding that Claimant's condition of ill-being resulting from that accident had to be evaluated as of time of arbitration hearing. Workers Compensation Act clearly contemplates a single determination as to permanency of a claimant’s condition as a result of an employment accident. As Claimant suffered multiple injuries to the same body part as a result of successive accidents and those claims were tried together, Commission properly evaluated the totality of the evidence as related to Claimant’s overall condition of ill-being at the time of hearing and entered a single award encompassing full extent of disability. (McCULLOUGH, HUDSON, and HOLDRIDGE, concurring; STEWART, specially concurring.)