{
  "id": 5329222,
  "name": "In Re Application of Linda Skrabek",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Skrabek",
  "decision_date": "1977-11-14",
  "docket_number": "No. 00129",
  "first_page": "380",
  "last_page": "381",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 380"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
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    "parties": [
      "In Re Application of Linda Skrabek"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "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, the Court finds that:\n1. The Claimant, Linda Skrabek, is the widow of the decedent, as stated in the application for benefits, and, in the absence of a designated beneficiary, Section 3(e) of the Act, provides that any award hereunder shall be paid to the surviving widow.\n2. The decedent, Joseph H. Skrabek, age 32, was a full-time Deputy Sheriff employed by the Bureau County Sheriff s Department and engaged in the active performance of his duties, within the meaning of Section 2(e) of the Act, on March 27, 1977.\n3. On said date, at approximately 2:15 a.m., during regularly assigned duty hours and in uniform, Deputy Sheriff Skrabek was operating a fully marked patrol car of the Bureau County Sheriffs Department, eastbound on \u201cRoute 6 and 34,\u201d three miles east of Wyanet, Illinois, when his police car was struck by another motorist\u2019s vehicle, a pick-up truck, which was westbound and crossed into the east-bound lane of travel upon the two lane roadway. Deputy Skrabek was killed in the collision of the two vehicles, and the coroner\u2019s certificate of death recites the immediate cause of death as, \u201ccrushing head injuries, with an approximate interval between onset and death of minutes.\u201d\n4. Deputy Sheriff Skrabek was killed in the line of duty as defined in Section 2(e) of the Act.\n5. The proof submitted in support of this claim satisfies all of the requirements of the Act, and the claim is therefore compensable thereunder.\nIt is hereby ordered that the sum of $20,000.00 be awarded to Linda Skrabek, as widow of the deceased policeman, Joseph H. Skrabek.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 00129\nIn Re Application of Linda Skrabek\nOpinion filed November 14, 1977"
  },
  "file_name": "0380-01",
  "first_page_order": 494,
  "last_page_order": 495
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