McAllister v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission

Summary

The court held that the claimant’s knee injury arose out of his employment because he was injured while kneeling and standing in the walk-in cooler to assist a coworker and perform duties his employer reasonably expected him to perform. It rejected the Commission’s classification of the injury as resulting from a neutral risk and found that decision against the manifest weight of the evidence. The court also held that common bodily movements and routine everyday activities are compensable when performed as employment-related acts, without additional proof that the claimant faced the activity more frequently or intensely than the general public.