{
  "id": 5319523,
  "name": "In Re Application of Madeline McGovern",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re McGovern",
  "decision_date": "1978-11-14",
  "docket_number": "Case No. 00157",
  "first_page": "1055",
  "last_page": "1057",
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      "cite": "32 Ill. Ct. Cl. 1055"
    }
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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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "In Re Application of Madeline McGovern."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis claim allegedly arising out of the death of a fireman killed in the line of duty, seeks payment of compensation to the decedent\u2019s beneficiary 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.\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, the Court finds that:\n1. The Claimant, Madeline McGovern, is the widow of the decedent and is the beneficiary who was designated by him as stated in the application for benefits;\n2. The decedent, Daniel J. McGovern, was a firefighter, employed by the Chicago Fire Department and engaged in the active performance of his duties, within the meaning of Section 2(e) of the Act, on March 16, 1978. He was 46 years of age;\n3. On said date, at approximately 3:52 p.m., firefighter McGovern was responding to a home fire alarm and on the second floor, pulling ceilings and sidewalls in the bedroom, kitchen, and hallway, when he was struck on the head by ceiling plaster. He complained of being dizzy and weak and oxygen was administered to him at the fire scene. After being transported to a hospital by ambulance, he was pronounced dead at 5:10 p.m. the same date. The medical examiner\u2019s certificate of death recited the immediate cause of death as \u201ccoronary trombosis,\u201d due to or as a consequence of \u201carteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease\u201d and \u201cinhalation of smoke and soot;\u201d\n4. Firefighter McGovern 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, by reason of the foregoing, that the sum of $20,000.00 be paid to Madeline McGovern, as widow and designated beneficiary of the deceased Chicago fireman, Daniel J. McGovern.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [],
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    "head_matter": "(Case No. 00157\nIn Re Application of Madeline McGovern.\nOpinion filed November 14, 1978."
  },
  "file_name": "1055-01",
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