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19(b) Benefits Awarded
19(b) Benefits Not Awarded
Ankle
Arm
Employment Contract
Eyes
Finger
Foot
General
Hand
Head
Hearing
Knee
Leg
Lumbar Spine
Malpractice
Neck
Occupational Disease
Other Man As A Whole
Pelvis
Ribs
scar
Shoulder
Upper Back
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19(b) Benefits Awarded (12)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-10-15	Pipefitter driving from home in company truck to meet boss for coffee to discuss making a bid wins benefits for car accident injury under traveling employee exception	None
2011-10-15	CTA bus driver stepping off bus slips on metal strip, falls on tailbone, and proves it's an increased risk	None
2011-10-15	Truck driver hired at Indiana company by phone call from Chicago office after drug test in Illinois makes employment contract in Illinois	None
2011-10-15	Laundry worker cleans up when benefits awarded for trip over edging on walkway while leaving for break	None
2011-09-24	Worker hurts back picking up engine, keeps working, and wins low back evaluation despite prior non-work-related neck pain history	None
2011-09-24	Traveling credit counselor in car accident on way home wins benefits	None
2011-09-24	Laborer wakes up with back pain the day after shoveling 2000 pounds, and wins benefits	None
2011-09-24	Healthcare worker who reaches to grab a falling patient wins lumbar steroid injection and work hardening, but nothing for neck pain first reported 3 months later	None
2011-09-24	Employee off work after surgery for work-related accident gets TTD even though he also had restrictions from non-work-related injury	None
2011-09-24	Carrying box caused lower back injury awarded medical benefits and MRI	None
2011-09-24	Repetitive Application of Pressure on Deburring Machine Caused Torn Rotator Cuff and Need for Surgery	None
2011-09-24	Jump Down Onto Platform Caused or Aggravated Thoracic Spine Endplate Degeneration and Radiating Pain	None

19(b) Benefits Not Awarded (5)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-10-15	Trip and fall a year before treatment for condition not causally connected to condition	None
2011-10-15	Chase Bank teller loses claim alleging repetitive trauma to hands from counting money and keyboarding	None
2011-09-24	Physical therapist who admits she knew neck pain was from work in 2009 loses because she didn't tell employer until 2010	None
2011-09-24	Failure to testify to any work accident probably means it's not work-related!	5
2011-09-24	Worker with pre-existing history of myelopathy complaints can't get work comp for spine surgery after undisputed slip and fall at work	None

Ankle (1)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-09-24	52 year old information technician slips on ice in parking lot walking to car after work, and wins 30% of a foot	None

Arm (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Employment Contract (1)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-10-15	Truck driver hired at Indiana company by phone call from Chicago office after drug test in Illinois makes employment contract in Illinois	None

Eyes (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Finger (1)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-09-24	High voltage burns to thumb and surgical debridement but back to full duty	None

Foot (0)

Date	Title	Rating

General (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Hand (4)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-10-15	Chase Bank teller loses claim alleging repetitive trauma to hands from counting money and keyboarding	None
2011-10-15	43 year old nurse's right hand crushed by violent patient, 5% of the hand awarded	None
2011-09-24	Hurt right hand from fall, then modified duty using left hand hurts left hand too, and finally, moderate bilateral carpal tunnel	None
2011-09-24	High voltage burns to thumb and surgical debridement but back to full duty	None

Head (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Hearing (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Knee (1)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-09-24	Off duty cop drinking at bar who then chases alleged bar robbers and hurts knee gets benefits	None

Leg (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Lumbar Spine (3)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-09-24	Lower back fusion surgery and back to work with a "no overtime" restriction reduced from 30% to 20% MAAW	None
2011-09-24	Carrying box caused lower back injury awarded medical benefits and MRI	None
2011-09-24	Truck driver rear ended in traffic exacerbates neck osteophyte, aggravates old lumbar herniation, and gets umbilical hernia	None

Malpractice (2)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-10-15	Arbitrator refuses to try certain cases, files her own work comp claim, and is subject to discipline	None
2011-10-15	Attorney for Petitioner e-mailing with Arbitrator about merits of case, and not including Employer's attorney, sanctioned by ARDC	None

Neck (2)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-10-15	Trip and fall a year before treatment for condition not causally connected to condition	None
2011-09-24	Truck driver rear ended in traffic exacerbates neck osteophyte, aggravates old lumbar herniation, and gets umbilical hernia	None

Occupational Disease (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Other Man As A Whole (1)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-09-24	Truck driver rear ended in traffic exacerbates neck osteophyte, aggravates old lumbar herniation, and gets umbilical hernia	None

Pelvis (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Ribs (0)

Date	Title	Rating

scar (1)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-09-24	High voltage burns to thumb and surgical debridement but back to full duty	None

Shoulder (1)

Date	Title	Rating
2011-09-24	Walking back to squad car from lunch break at home police officer slips on his own icy driveway to hurt shoulder, and wins benefits	None

Upper Back (0)

Date	Title	Rating

Date	Title	Rating
2011-10-15	Pipefitter driving from home in company truck to meet boss for coffee to discuss making a bid wins benefits for car accident injury under traveling employee exception	None
2011-10-15	CTA bus driver stepping off bus slips on metal strip, falls on tailbone, and proves it's an increased risk	None
2011-09-24	Not a work accident when employee scoots and falls backwards off bench of break-room table	None
2011-09-24	Police office with longstanding history of low back problems cannot get low back problems covered by work comp after rear-ended because only complaint right after accident was upper back pain	None
2011-09-24	Trip over own own feet at work not a work-related accident	None

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