However, the Commission is charged with assessing the credibility of the witnesses, resolving conflicts in the evidence, assigning weight to be accorded the evidence, and drawing reasonable inferences from the evidence. Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n , 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 52, 400 Ill.Dec. 392, 48 N.E.3d 679. The Commission weighed the evidence and determined that claimant was presented with a bona fide job offer for the watchman position. This finding is supported by the testimony of Pak and Misch. This finding is also supported by the fact that claimant informed both Dr. Maday and Boyd that he had been offered a watchman position.¶ 77 Claimant argues that further proof that he was not offered a watchman job is that respondent continued to pay him full maintenance benefits until May 2012, about nine months after the job offer was allegedly made.
¶ 39 "As a general rule, the question of whether an employee's injury arose out of and in the course of his employment is one of fact for the Commission." Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n , 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 38, 400 Ill.Dec. 392, 48 N.E.3d 679 ; see also Sisbro , 207 Ill. 2d at 205, 278 Ill.Dec. 70, 797 N.E.2d 665 ("Whether a claimant's disability is attributable solely to a degenerative process of the preexisting condition or to an aggravation or acceleration of a preexisting condition because of an accident is a factual determination to be decided by the Industrial Commission."). On review, the Commission's determinations on factual matters will not be disturbed unless they are against the manifest weight of the evidence.
¶ 34 "As a general rule, the question of whether an employee's injury arose out of and in the course of his employment is one of fact for the Commission." Bolingbrook Police Department v. Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 38, 48 N.E.3d 679. "With respect to factual matters, it is within the province of the Commission to judge the credibility of the witnesses, resolve conflicts in the evidence, assign weight to be accorded the evidence, and draw reasonable inferences therefrom." Id.; see also Land & Lakes Co. v. Industrial Comm'n, 359 Ill. App. 3d 582, 592, 834 N.E.2d 583, 592 (2005) ("It is the Commission's duty to resolve conflicts in the evidence, particularly medical opinion evidence.").
¶ 35 "As a general rule, the question of whether an employee's injury arose out of and in the course of his employment is one of fact for the Commission." Bolingbrook Police Department v. Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 38, 48 N.E.3d 679. "In resolving questions of fact, it is within the province of the Commission to assess the credibility of witnesses, resolve conflicts in the evidence, assign weight to be accorded the evidence, and draw reasonable inferences from the evidence." Hosteny v. Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 397 Ill. App. 3d 665, 674, 928 N.E.2d 474, 482 (2009).
On review, the Commission's factual findings will not be disturbed unless they are against the manifest weight of the evidence. Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 38, 48 N.E.3d 679. "A decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence only if an opposite conclusion is clearly apparent." Bolingbrook Police Department, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 38, 48 N.E.3d 679.
" Mansfield v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2013 IL App (2d) 120909WC, ¶ 27, 999 N.E.2d 832. "In cases involving a preexisting condition, recovery will depend on the employee's ability to establish that a work-related accidental injury aggravated or accelerated the preexisting disease such that the employee's current condition of ill-being can be said to be causally connected to the work-related injury." Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 50, 48 N.E.3d 679.¶ 68 "Whether a causal connection exists between an employee's condition of ill-being and his or her employment is a question of fact for the Commission.
¶ 38 "A claimant bears the burden of establishing a causal connection between his or her condition of ill-being and employment." ABF Freight System v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (1st) 141306WC, ¶ 19, 45 N.E.3d 757. Whether a causal relationship exists is a question of fact for the Commission. Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 52, 48 N.E.3d 679. On review, the Commission's decision will not be disturbed unless it is against the manifest weight of the evidence.
On review, the Commission's factual findings will not be disturbed unless they are against the manifest weight of the evidence. Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 38, 48 N.E.3d 679. "A decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence only if an opposite conclusion is clearly apparent." Id.
¶ 37 "A claimant bears the burden of establishing a causal connection between his or her condition of ill-being and employment." ABF Freight System v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (1st) 141306WC, ¶ 19, 45 N.E.3d 757. Whether a causal relationship exists is a question of fact for the Commission. Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 52, 48 N.E.3d 679. On review, the Commission's decision will not be disturbed unless it is against the manifest weight of the evidence.
We note that, "[w]ith respect to factual matters, it is within the province of the Commission to judge the credibility of the witnesses, resolve conflicts in the evidence, assign weight to be accorded the evidence, and draw reasonable inferences therefrom." Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Comm'n, 2015 IL App (3d) 130869WC, ¶ 38, 48 N.E.3d 679. In this instance, the Commission was free to accept the description of events provided by the employer's counsel, which it apparently did.