State v. Labor & Industry Review Commission

HEFFERNAN, CHIEF JUSTICE.

This is a review of an unpublished decision dated September 12, 1985, of the court of appeals which reversed in part and affirmed in part an order of the circuit court for Dane county, P. Charles Jones, Judge, which affirmed in part and reversed in part an order of the Labor and Industry Review Commission. On review, we are concerned with but one of the questions involved in the original proceeding: Whether the surviving spouse of a deceased employee who was entitled to apply for total disability compensation but failed to do so may bring a claim for the deceased…