Court Opinion

ID: 9721606
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:03:11.081604+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:27.639027
License: Public Domain

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCULLOUGH, specially concurring: I agree that the five-year filing period in cases caused by coal miner’s pneumoconiosis does apply. The respondent in his brief cites to section 1(f), which requires that the disablement occur within two years after the last day of last exposure (820 ILCS 310/l(f) (West 1992)). Other than this bare statement, the respondent does not argue nor does he point to any evidence to show that the claimant did not prove that the disease occurred within two years after last exposure. This court has stated that section 1(f) does apply in cases similar to this, and I write this special concurrence only to point out that the applicability of section 1(f) is not pursued by the respondent.