KING v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N

No. 87099.

724 N.E.2d 896 (2000)

189 Ill.2d 167

244 Ill.Dec. 8

Joe W. KING, Appellant, v. The INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al. (R.R. Donnelly, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

January 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Gaines, Gaines & Gaines, Chicago, for Joe W. King.

Mark A. Braun, Braun, Lynch, Smith & Strobel, Ltd., Chicago, for R.R. Donnelly.

Harry E. Kinzie, III, Nyhan, Pfister, Bambrick & Kinzie, P.C., Chicago, for Illinois Self-Insurers Association.


Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal involves the Workers' Compensation Act (Act) (820 ILCS 305/1 et seq. (West 1996)). The narrow question presented is whether a claimant who has been awarded permanent total disability under section 8(f) of the Act (820 ILCS 305/8(f) (West 1996)) may later be required to submit to an employer-requested medical examination under section 12 of the Act (820 ILCS 305/12 (West 1996)), even where the...

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