The Illinois Appellate Court has held that there was no entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits where a clerk’s normal action of bending over and reaching for a pan while seated in his work chair, absent any defect in the equipment or the floor surface, and then suffering an injury when falling out of the chair, was insufficient to establish a work-related cause or injury arising out of his employment. Read more
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