Honthaners Restaurants, Inc. v. Labor & Industry Review Commission

¶ 27. (dissenting). Spencer v. DILHR, 55 Wis. 2d 525, 531-532, 200 N.W.2d 611, 614-615 (1972), held that when a worker with a work-related injury accepts treatment for that injury in good faith, the employer is responsible for the costs of the treatment as well as any aggravation to the injury that results in either a higher level or longer period of disability even though in retrospect that treatment was neither reasonable nor necessary. Spencer applies, however, only where the treatment was "for an undisputed compen-sable" work-related injury. City of Wauwatosa v. LIRC, 110 Wis. 2d 298,…