ROCK TENN v. LABOR & INDUSTRY REVIEW COM'N

No. 2010AP1723.

799 N.W.2d 904 (2011)

2011 WI App 93

ROCK TENN COMPANY, Folding Carton Division and Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company, c/o Kemper Services Company-Broadspire, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LABOR AND INDUSTRY REVIEW COMMISSION and Shelly Wasmund, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed May 25, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Robert P. Ochowicz and Gretchen E. Leehr of Kasdorf, Lewis & Swietlik, S.C., Milwaukee.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Charlotte Gibson , assistant attorney general, and J.B. Van Hollen , attorney general; and Ronald Bornstein of Bornstein Law Offices, S.C., Milwaukee.

Before NEUBAUER, P.J., ANDERSON and REILLY, JJ.


ANDERSON, J.

¶ 1 Rock Tenn Company and Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company (Rock Tenn) insist that the Labor and Industry Review Commission (LIRC) unreasonably interpreted WIS. STAT. § 102.18(1)(b) (2009-10)1 in holding that it could be retroactively applied to award prospective treatment expenses. We affirm, because we conclude that LIRC's interpretation of the statute is reasonable; the retroactive application of the statute...

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