Court Tosses Costs Award to Business Groups for Challenge to COVID Emergency Rule

The Illinois Appellate Court overturned an award of costs and fees to business groups for their efforts to prohibit the Workers’ Compensation Commission from enforcing benefits to first responders and frontline workers susceptible to COVID-19. Case: Illinois Manufacturers' Association v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, No. 4-20-0397, 07/14/2021, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. J.B. Pritzker declared the state of Illinois “a disaster area.” He later issued an executive or...