The Illinois Appellate Court has issued a judgment ruling that affirms part of and reverses part of a trial court\u2019s decision regarding a workers’ compensation claims. The worker in question had been training with the city of Chicago to become a paramedic.<\/p>\n
Joseph Locasto was employed by the city of Chicago as a trainee at the Chicago Fire and Paramedic Academy,where he was training to become a paramedic for the Chicago Fire Department. In May 2008, after two days of intense training that Locasto claims included military-style hazing and long periods of continuous physical exercise with limited water breaks, he experienced leg cramping and discolored urine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Locasto went to the emergency room, where he was diagnosed with acute kidney failure, rhabdomyolysis and compartment syndrome. Rhabdomyolysis is a condition that causes the kidneys to stop functioning, and it can be caused by overexertion and dehydration. The condition affected Locasto’s ability to work, and he claimed disability benefits. A retirement board found that the claimant had made a full recovery by August 3, 2009.<\/p>\n
The trial court awarded temporary total disability for time periods prior to August 3, 2009. That judgment was affirmed by the appellate court. However, the trial court confirmed a ruling by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission that awarded benefits for temporary partial disability and temporary total disability after August 3, 2009, but the appellate court reversed that judgment.<\/p>\n
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El Tribunal de Apelaci\u00f3n de Illinois ha dictado una sentencia que confirma en parte y revoca en parte la decisi\u00f3n de un tribunal de primera instancia en relaci\u00f3n con una reclamaci\u00f3n de indemnizaci\u00f3n por accidente laboral. El trabajador en cuesti\u00f3n hab\u00eda estado form\u00e1ndose con la ciudad de Chicago para convertirse en param\u00e9dico. Joseph Locasto fue contratado por la ciudad de Chicago como...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[373,244,374],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-accidents","tag-chicago-fire-department","tag-illinois-workers-compensation-commission","tag-joseph-locasto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briskmanandbriskman.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}