PIGEON v. ILHR DEPARTMENT

No. 80-2200.

106 Wis.2d 135 (1981)

316 N.W.2d 117

Francis PIGEON (Deceased) and Frances Pigeon, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, LABOR & HUMAN RELATIONS, State of Wisconsin, Defendant-Co-Appellant, EMPLOYERS INSURANCE OF WAUSAU, Defendant-Appellant, MURRAY MACHINERY, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided December 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant Employers Insurance of Wausau there was a brief by Kathleen E. Grant and Schuch, Rouse, Bartells & Wilson of Wausau.

For the co-appellant Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations the cause was submitted on the briefs of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Lowell E. Nass, assistant attorney general.

For the respondents the cause was submitted on the brief of Robert E. Gratz, Virginia M. Antoine, and Goldberg, Previant, Uelmen, Gratz, Miller, Levy & Brueggeman, S.C., of Milwaukee.

Before Foley, P.J., Dean and Cane, JJ.


CANE, J.

The Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations (DILHR) and Employers Insurance of Wausau appeal from a circuit court judgment reversing a decision of the Labor and Industrial Review Commission (LIRC) and an order remanding the case for further proceedings. The circuit court held that sec. 102.51 (5), Stats., allows an employee to compromise only his own claims. Because a compromise of liability made under that section may affect the amount due his...

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