Court Addresses Vocational Rehabilitation in Three Recent Cases
By Lindsey Beukema
Workers’ Compensation Law,
April 2026
Case summaries of three recent appellate cases, relating to: refusing a light duty return to work, affirming an award of permanent total disability benefits under the "odd-lot" theory, and denying a researcher with multiple advanced degrees vocational rehabilitation.
Case Summary: Borst
By Lindsey Beukema
Workers’ Compensation Law,
March 2025
In Borst v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, 2024 Il App (2d) 230124WC-U, a maintenance technician failed to prove his repetitive trauma claim, and the court addressed a common evidentiary objection.
Calculation of AWW
By Lindsey Beukema
Workers’ Compensation Law,
February 2015
In R & D Thiel, A Division of Carpenter Contractors of America v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n, the Court issued a Rule 23 Order addressing the calculation of average weekly wage using the second method of Section 10.
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