White v. Labor & Industry Review Commission

¶ 1. The principal issue in this worker's compensation case is whether the first clause of WiS. Stat. § 102.01(2)(g)2 (1997-98) 1 relieves an employee of the burden to prove that an occupational disease stemmed from the employment with the employer against whom the claim is made. The Labor and Industry Review Commission (LIRC) determined that the statute required the claimant, Gary J. White, to establish such linkage between his occupational back disease and his employment with Olympic Wall Systems, Inc. (Olympic). LIRC further held that the evidence submitted by White did not satisfy this…