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  "id": 5323909,
  "name": "In Re Application of Beverly J. Findlay",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Findlay",
  "decision_date": "1977-11-14",
  "docket_number": "No. 00109",
  "first_page": "369",
  "last_page": "370",
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    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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      "In Re Application of Beverly J. Findlay"
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      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim, arising out of the death of a policeman allegedly killed in the line of duty, seeks payment of compensation to the decedent\u2019s beneficiaries pursuant to the provisions of the \u201cLaw Enforcement Officers and Firemen Compensation Act,\u201d (hereafter the Act) Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 48, Sec. 281 et seq., 1975.\nThe Court has carefully considered the application for benefits submitted on the form prescribed and furnished by the Attorney General; a written statement of the decedent\u2019s supervising officer; and a report by the Illinois Attorney General\u2019s Office which substantiates matters set forth in the application. Based upon these documents and other evidence submitted at a hearing before the Court on October 12, 1977, the Court finds that:\n1. Joliet Police Department Patrolman, William V. Findlay, died on March 20,1976, at St. Joseph Hospital, Joliet, of cancer, after a prolonged illness, at the age of 49.\n2. The last day of police duty by Officer Findlay was March 25, 1975.\n3. The death certificate submitted by the Claimant recites the immediate cause of death as \u201crespiratory failure, due to or as a consequence of metastasis,\u201d due to or as a consequence of \u201c... cancer of the left lung.\u201d\n4. Section 2, subparagraph (e) of the Act provides, in relevant part, that \u201ckilled in the line of duty\u201d means losing one\u2019s life as a result of injury received in the active performance of duties as a law enforcement officer ... if the death occurs within one year from the date the injury was received and if that injury arose from violence or other accidental cause.\u201d\n5. Patrolman Findlay was not killed in the line of duty as defined in the Act.\nIt is hereby ordered, by reason of the foregoing, that the claim for benefits by Beverly J. Findlay, pertaining to the death of her husband, William V. Find-lay, be, and the same is hereby denied.",
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        "author": "Per Curiam."
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    "head_matter": "(No. 00109\nIn Re Application of Beverly J. Findlay\nOpinion filed November 14, 1977"
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