Anker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Prior to 1925, the furnishing of medical and hospital services was held to be a payment of compensation in the same manner and with the same effects as the payment of weekly or other compensation under Section 8. That presented a very unsatisfactory and unfair situation. The prompt furnishing of proper medical and hospital services was of great immediate importance both to the employee and to the employer, and yet the employer was placed in the position that if he provided such service and then it developed that there was no compensation liability, as for example that the condition was not due to accidental injury arising out of and in the course of employment, yet the furnishing of such service was a payment of compensation, and an admission of liability, it affected the matter of limitations as to making claim under Section 24, and was subject to review under Section 19(h) as being conclusive of any and all questions of liability and left open for consideration only the question whether there had been a recurrence or increase of disability since the time of the payment for such services. The statute now provides that the payment for medical and hospital services is not an admission of liability to pay compensation and not a payment for compensation.” (Emphasis added.) Anker v. Illinois, 11 Ill. Ct. Cl. 32, 36 (1935).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crispell v. Industrial Commission