Smith v. Louis Joliet Shoppingtown L.P.

How courts have described this case

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

• the trial court lacked the authority to adjudicate the employer’s lien in an amount less than the employee’s recovery from a negligence suit
• the trial court lacked the authority to adjudicate the employer’s lien in an amount less than the employee’s recovery from a negligence suit
• “Estoppel refers to the effect of a party’s voluntary conduct that precludes it from asserting rights that might otherwise have existed against another person who has detrimentally relied upon such conduct”
• “[Section 5(b) of the Act] grants the employer * * * a statutory lien on any recovery the employee receives from a liable third party equal to the amount of the workers’ compensation benefits paid or owed to the employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).