General counsel for review board returning to private sector
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.
Lawmakers save commission that reviews labor decisions
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.
Lawmakers to decide fate of commission that reviews ALJ decisions
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.
Change LIRC-ing around the corner?
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.
Employment – workers’ compensation
2011AP2008 City of Appleton Police Department, et al. v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.
Employment – discrimination — judicial review
2011AP803 Deering v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al.
Employment — unemployment compensation — misconduct
2011AP986 Scot Forge Company v. Labor and Industry Review Commission
Court considers right to cross-examine
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to decide whether parties have a right to cross-examine independent medical examiners in workers’ compensation cases.
THE DARK SIDE: The hazards of playing basketball at the firehouse
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.
Milwaukee teachers drop Viagra suit
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 in its health insurance plans. The union has argued the board’s policy of excluding such […]
Legal News
- Wisconsin lawyers file University of Wisconsin public records request seeking answers to protests
- Wisconsin Supreme Court issues orders amending Supreme Court rules and Wis. Stats.
- EXCLUSIVE: Former Milwaukee ‘big law’ partner attacks news media for bias against Trump
- Former Milwaukee election official fined for obtaining fake absentee ballots
- Contract dispute prevents airing of 15 regional sports networks, impacts Brewers
- Wis. middle school focuses on recovery as authorities investigate shooting
- Gov. Evers seeks applicants for Sheboygan and Green County Sheriffs
- North Carolina man who harbored Nazi memorabilia and attacked Black and Latino men sentenced to 41 months
- Nation grieves with families of officers killed in NC
- Amended complaint filed in federal court against State Bar of Wisconsin seeks punitive damages
- United Healthcare suit against cancer drug distributor time-barred
- Trump’s Wisconsin visit warns of jail time if he violates a trial gag order
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