Supreme Court of Illinois

A decision of the Industrial Commission under the Workers' Compensation Act is vacated, because the panel that rendered it was illegally constituted, where the Commission acted outside its specific statutory authority in appointing arbitrators to commissioner vacancies. (Modified opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2002
• Published 08/29/2002

Judges

• Chief Justice HARRISON delivered the judgment of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anne-Louise Kleper, of Lewis, Davidson & Hetherington, Ltd., Chicago, for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and Deborah L. Ahlstrand, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for the Industrial Commission of Illinois.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nyhan, Pfister, Bambrick, Kinzie & Lowry, P.C., Chicago (Edward M. Pfister and Bruce D. Crofts, of counsel), for appellee.