Republican Lawmakers and Advisory Council on Separate Paths

Traditionally, Wisconsin state lawmakers haven't tinkered with the nation's oldest workers' compensation system without vetting their ideas through the labor and management representatives on the state's Workers' Compensation Advisory Council. But the state representative who introduced legislation to overhaul Wisconsin's workers' compensation law said he had no idea that the advisory body was close to hammering out a deal on an agreed bill before he submitted his own plan. Rep. John Spiros, with a Senate colleague, sent details of the proposed legislation to ...