ARGONAUT INS. v. LIRC

No. 85-2167.

132 Wis.2d 385 (1986)

392 N.W.2d 837

ARGONAUT INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LABOR AND INDUSTRY REVIEW COMMISSION, Defendant-Respondent, Luthresa N. JOHNSON, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided June 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant the cause was submitted on the briefs of Michael S. Heffernan and Richard Cayo, and Walther & Halling, S.C., of Milwaukee.

For the defendant-respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Stephen M. Sobota, assistant attorney general.

Before Gartzke, P.J., Dykman and Eich, JJ.


EICH, J.

Argonaut Insurance Company appeals from a judgment affirming an order of the Labor and Industry Review Commission. The commission's order confirmed an award of worker's compensation benefits to Luthresa N. Johnson for a permanent total disability. While the parties raise several issues on appeal, we consider one to be dispositive: did the hearing examiner abuse her discretion in denying Argonaut's request to postpone the hearing to permit it to obtain an...

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