Beelman Trucking v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• the Workers’ Compensation Act is a remedial statute intended to provide financial protection for injured workers and it is to be liberally construed to accomplish that objective
• a “decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence only if the record discloses that the opposite conclusion clearly is the proper result”
• a “decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence only if the record discloses that the opposite conclusion clearly is the proper result”
• “[i]t has long been recognized that constitutional issues will be reviewed by this court only when the case may not be decided on nonconstitutional grounds”
• “[i]t has long been recognized that constitutional issues will be reviewed by this court only when the case may not be decided on nonconstitutional grounds”
• the Workers’ Compensation Act is a remedial statute intended to provide financial protection for injured workers and it is to be liberally construed to accomplish that objective

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).