Appellate Court Rules That Act Might Not Apply to CTA Case

A trial court should not have dimissed a lawsuit by one Chicago Transit Authority employee against another until it determined whether an injury suffered during an alleged workplace battery was compensible under the Workers' Compensation Act, an Illinois appellate court ruled.In Foster v. Johnson, No. 1-06-0822, 12/26/07, the Illinois 3rd Appellate Division reversed an earlier ruling stating that the Workers' Compensation Act bars a lawsuit that William Foster filed against his co-worker, John Johnson. The appellate court ruled that the trial court had not gathered enough information t...