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WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT DEFINES “SUBSTANTIAL FAULT” STANDARD FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND WORKER’S COMPENSATION MATTERS

By:  Daniel Finerty On May 4, 2017, the Wisconsin Supreme Court released a long–awaited decision in Lela Operton vs. LIRC, 2017 WI 46, the first Supreme Court interpretation of Wisconsin’s “substantial fault” standard. Operton held that, as a matter of law, the employee’s eight accidental or careless cash-handling errors over the course of 80,000 cash-handling […]

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