MICHELS PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION v. LIRC

No. 2007AP607.

750 N.W.2d 485 (2008)

2008 WI App 55

MICHELS PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION and Bituminous Casualty Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LABOR AND INDUSTRY REVIEW COMMISSION and David P. Benites, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed March 12, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Thomas M. Rohe of Kasdorf, Lewis & Swietlik, Milwaukee.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of David A. Hart, Assistant Attorney General, and J.B. Van Hollen, Attorney General.

Before BROWN, C.J., ANDERSON, P.J., and SNYDER, J.


¶ 1 SNYDER, J.

Michels Pipeline Construction and Bituminous Casualty Corporation (together, Michels) appeal from an order affirming a Labor and Industry Review Commission (LIRC) decision requiring Michels to pay $13,000 for improperly applying a social security offset to an injured employee's disability payments. The employee, David Benites, was injured at work and subsequently enrolled in a vocational rehabilitation program. While Benites was in the program...

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