Sisbro, Inc. v. Industrial Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that an injury occurs “[i]n the course of employment” when it “occur[s] within the time and space boundaries of the employment”
• ruling that an injury occurs “[i]n the course of employment” when it “occur[s] within the time and space boundaries of the employment”
• holding that “[a]ccidental injury need not be the sole causative factor, nor even the primary causative factor, as long as it was a causative factor in the resulting condition of ill-being” (emphasis in original)
• an injury arises out employment if the employee was performing acts his employer instructed him to perform
• where parties presented conflicting expert testimony on causation, it was within the province of the Commission to judge the credibility of the - 11 - witnesses and to resolve any conflicts in their testimony
• “even though an employee has a preexisting condition which may make him more vulnerable to injury, recovery for an accidental injury will not be denied as long as it can be shown that the employment was also a causative factor”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).