100 Years of Workers’ Compensation in Wisconsin

Just over one hundred years ago, on May 3, 1911, the Act creating Wisconsin’s workers’ compensation system was signed into law–thereby becoming the first operational worker’s compensation system in the country. The Act solidified the “great compromise” between employers and employees, where employees gave up the right to sue in tort in exchange for well-defined, smaller, and faster benefits without having to prove “fault.” Continue reading »

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