GREDE FOUNDRIES, INC. v. Price Erecting Co.

The issue in this case is whether the legislative policy which limits an employer’s liability to that provided under workmen’s compensation, extends to actions for implied indemnification by third parties based on employer’s breach of contract.

It is well established that the sole liability of an employer because of the injury of an employee in the course of his employment, either to the employee or to anyone else, is under workmen’s compensation law. Larsen v. J. I. Case Co. (1968), 37 Wis. 2d 516, 155 N. W. 2d 666; Algrem v. Nowlan (1967), 37 Wis. 2d 70, 75, 154 N. W. 2d 217; Engel v. Bindel…