Labor & Employment Law Update

On December 19, 2013, the Illinois Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in Venture-Newberg-Perini, Stone & Webster v. Ill. Workers’ Compensation Comm’n., No. 115728 (Ill. 2013).   Claimant Ronald Daugherty accepted temporary employment 200 miles from his home at Respondent Venture’s Cordova plant.  Daugherty and coworker Todd McGill chose to stay in a hotel 30 miles from the plant rather than make the 400 mile/day roundtrip commute after their 12-hour shifts.  On what was to be their second day of work, McGill, driving his own truck, skidded on ice while ...