Another Appellate Court Activist Stunner

In Oliver v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, issued Dec. 18, claimant worked for an Illinois construction employer for only three days. His supervisor saw him on all three days and noticed nothing unusual about Claimant during the entire time he worked for the company. Several days after being laid off, claimant called his supervisor to tell his boss he was seriously injured while working for the company. As a business observer, one would start to smell the workers' compensation equivalent of the proverbial “rat.” The matter was tried before former Arbitrator K...