Appellate Court’s Liberal Ruling on Accident and Causation

KEY TAKEAWAYS – In Cronk v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, the Appellate Court took a very liberal approach in determining what it takes to prove employment is a causative factor. An accidental injury does not need to be the sole causative factor of an injury, nor even the primary causative factor, as long as it was a causative factor in the resulting condition of ill-being….
By: Goldberg Segalla