Wertz v. Western Golf & Country Club

In these consolidated appeals defendants Western Golf & Country Club and its workers’ compensation insurer, Firemen’s Fund Insurance Company, and Mark of Excellence Catering and its workers’ compensation insurer, Employers Insurance of Wausau, appeal by leave granted a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board significantly modifying a decision of the hearing referee and ordering them to pay benefits to plaintiff Etta Wertz. We reverse the decision of the wcab.

Plaintiff began working for Mark of Excellence in 1979 as a waitress. She carried heavy trays and did a great deal of…