A state appeals panel last week vacated the nearly $28,000 award for medical expenses, penalties and attorney fees an injured hotel worker received because, in part, he pursued his claims in the wrong forum.Rudy Guzman Jr. complained before the Workers’ Compensation Commission that his former employer, the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, never paid all of his medical bills as it indicated it had in a lump-sum settlement contract.But the five-justice panel of the Illinois Appellate Court’s Workers&rsquo …