POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Section 5(b) of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act, Ill.Rev.Stat.1981, ch. 48, ¶ 138.5(b), provides that if an employee is injured in circumstances requiring his employer to compensate him under the Act, and if he later recovers damages from a tortfeasor for the same injury, he must pay from his damage award "to the employer the amount of compensation paid or to be paid by [the employer] to such employee"; but "where the services of...
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