{"id":1690,"date":"2013-07-05T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:33:08","slug":"illinois-supreme-court-considers-dispute-over-commuting-worker-injured-in-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-considers-dispute-over-commuting-worker-injured-in-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Supreme Court Considers Dispute Over Commuting Worker Injured in Car Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Illinois Supreme Court has taken a case for consideration dealing with the Illinois Workers\u2019 Compensation Commission as to an employee\u2019s commute from a motel to a job site.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The issue in the case is whether the employee is covered for his injuries by the Workers\u2019 Compensation Act when he was on his way from his motel (temporary living quarters) to his job site.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The Supreme Court will look at whether the jobsite is linked closely enough to the worker\u2019s employment so that the injuries he suffered in a car accident on the way to work are compensable.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The law does not usually consider injuries while commuting to or from work as compensable unless the travel is a result or requirement of the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In 2006, the plaintiff, Ronald Daugherty of Springfield, Ill., took a temporary pipefitting job with The Venture-Newberg Perini Stone &amp; Webster, which is a contractor working on a nuclear power plant in Cordoba, Ill., <span>\u00a0<\/span>owned by Exelon Corp.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Daugherty was injured in a car accident on his way to work from his motel.<span>\u00a0<\/span>As a result of his injuries, he filed a workers\u2019 compensation claim.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-considers-dispute-over-commuting-worker-injured-in-car-accident\/#more-1690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Supreme Court has taken a case for consideration dealing with the Illinois Workers\u2019 Compensation Commission as to an employee\u2019s commute from a motel to a job site.\u00a0The issue in the case is whether the employee is covered for his injuries by the Workers\u2019 Compensation Act when he was on his way from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,7,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-work-injuries","category-workers-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Supreme Court Considers Dispute Over Commuting Worker Injured in Car Accident &#8212; 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