TRANSAMERICA INS. CO. v. ILHR DEPARTMENT

No. 201.

54 Wis.2d 272 (1972)

195 N.W.2d 656

TRANSAMERICA INSURANCE COMPANY and another, Appellants, v. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, LABOR & HUMAN RELATIONS and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided March 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief by Kivett & Kasdorf, attorneys, and Nonald J. Lewis and Conrad G. Goodkind of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Lewis.

A brief was filed for the respondent Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations by Robert W. Warren, attorney general, and Gordon Samuelsen, assistant attorney general, and for the respondent Israel Santiago by Adrian P. Schoone of Racine, and oral argument by Mr. Samuelsen and Mr. Schoone.


ROBERT W. HANSEN, J.

This appeal brings a dispute as to the department finding that the claimant was totally permanently disabled—an issue as to whether claimants in workmen's compensation cases can be required to pursue vocational rehabilitation—and a challenge based on the absence of stated reasons for the department setting aside an examiner's findings. All three matters require comment.

Was there credible evidence to sustain the department...

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