IL WC UPDATE: New Accident While Seeking Treatment from Prior Accident Found Not Compensable
In 2019, the Third District Appellate Court issued a Rule 23 Decision in Gaytan v. The Illinois Workers’ Comp. Comm’n, 2019 IL App (3d) 180141WC-U, in which they found a petitioner’s second accident, suffered en route to treatment for the original accident, not to be compensable. The petitioner originally suffered an accepted accident that caused left…