Keefe: High Court Flips 'Emergency' Response Lifetime Health Care Award

We agree with the august members of our Supreme Court but, for us, this one doesn’t pass the “smell test” for lifetime line-of-duty benefits for a police officer. We suggest our readers carefully review the Illinois Supreme Court ruling in Vaughn v. City of Carbondale, 2016 IL 119181 (March 24). Plaintiff, a former city police officer, was on duty and while standing outside his patrol car in a parking lot, reached inside the car to answer a dispatcher's call on his radio. While reaching in, he struck his head on the car’s door frame. It appears his doctors must...