Governor Walker, as part of his budget bill that was released on February 3, 2015, proposed removing the Worker’s Compensation Division from the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) and moving the functions to the Department of Administration – Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOA) and to the Office of Commissioner of Insurance (OCI). Specifically, the […]
4th Annual Worker’s Compensation Spring Symposium Register Now! The Lindner & Marsack worker’s compensation team has been recognized by U.S. News and World Reports as one of the nation’s preeminent worker’s compensation defense practices. You now have the opportunity to join our first tier ranked team for a half-day morning worker’s compensation seminar we are […]
Please mark your calendar for Lindner & Marsack, S.C.’s Annual Compliance/Best Practices Seminar When: April 28, 2015 Time: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Where: Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel – 375 South Moorland Road, Brookfield, Wisconsin This FREE half-day event will address current topics in labor, employment, benefits & worker’s compensation law and provide employers across […]
February 16, 2015 By: Alan M. Levy and Oyvind Wistrom On February 12, 2015 the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that Milwaukee County could eliminate its payment of Medicare Part B premiums for otherwise eligible employees who retired more than three months after its adoption of ordinance amendment to that effect. Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and […]
December 29, 2014 By: Alan M. Levy On December 19, 2014, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued its decision in Stoker v. Milwaukee County and Milwaukee County Pension Board. In 2011, the County had amended its previous ordinance to reduce the multiplier used to calculate the amount of a person’s pension payments from 2% to 1.6% […]
Lindner & Marsack’s worker’s compensation defense practice is well recognized as an industry leader in providing work injury defense services to many of Wisconsin’s largest employers and insurance carriers. Doug Feldman heads the Firm’s highly regarded work injury defense team and is a founding Board Member and current President of Kids’ Chance of Wisconsin. Kids’ […]
November 13, 2014 By: Alan M. Levy and Samantha J. Wood The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has recently popularized employer wellness programs. The Department of Labor and Health and Human Services are presenting the ACA as promoting such programs by encouraging employers to offer “rewards” for participation. According to the final regulations, such “rewards” can […]
By: Daniel Finerty and Samantha Wood In our July 9, 2013 E-Alert “Workplace Social Media Legislation Introduced in the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly” [https://lindner-marsack.com/news/workplace-social-media-legislation-introduced-in-the-wisconsin-senate-and-assembly], we wrote about bi-partisan legislation introduced to limit an employer’s ability to request access to, observe, or require disclosure of a personal internet account of an applicant or employee. Senate Bill […]
By: Daniel Finerty In a previous E-Alert, we described a series of substantial changes and amendments to Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance law that were scheduled to go into effect. The majority of the changes, including changes to the definition of “misconduct” and “substantial fault”, recently went into effect on January 5, 2014 and first apply to […]
By: Alan M. Levy On October 1, 2013 the Wisconsin Court of Appeals held that Milwaukee County could eliminate the reimbursement of Medicare Part B premiums for employees who had not retired before that modification took effect on April 1, 2011. Reversing the decision below, the Court held that the Supreme Court’s decision in Loth […]