The general counsel for the three-person, independent body that reviews workers’ compensation, equal rights and jobless-benefits decisions is returning to the private sector.

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A powerful panel of lawmakers rejected a proposal to axe a more-than-century-old independent body that reviews jobless benefits, workers’ compensation and equal-rights cases.

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A powerful panel of lawmakers will decide Thursday whether to eliminate an independent body that reviews decisions in jobless-benefits, equal-rights and workers’ compensation cases.

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Practitioners don’t know exactly what to expect from Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to eliminate the independent commission that now reviews administrative-law judges’ decisions in workers’ compensation, jobless-benefits and equal-rights cases.

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2011AP2008 City of Appleton Police Department, et al. v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.

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2011AP803 Deering v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.

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2011AP986 Scot Forge Company v. Labor and Industry Review Commission

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to decide whether parties have a right to cross-examine independent medical examiners in workers’ compensation cases.

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A little while back, I was informed that somebody who plays for the Milwaukee Brewers had injured himself playing basketball and would be out for the beginning of the baseball season, if not longer.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Milwaukee teachers union has dropped a lawsuit seeking to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back. The union sued in July 2010 to force the school board to again include the erectile dysfunction drug and similar pills ...

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