According to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, the Illinois Supreme Court has been asked by a transport company to decide whether a truck driver can receive workers' compensation for aggravating an injury that he repeatedly denied he had before he joined the company. Prairie Materials argued last week that while workers can receive awards for making a preexisting condition worse, the rule should not apply when a worker denies any preexisting condition in the first place, saying to do so would promote fraud, saying "[T]his is especially so here where the driver was in the process of claiming and...
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