IN RE ESTATE OF RIVERA

Appeal No. 2017AP142.

908 N.W.2d 486 (2018)

2018 WI App 14

IN RE the ESTATE OF Carlos Esterley Cerrato RIVERA: Raoul R. Ehr, Special Administrator, Guinifer Lizeth Cerrato Nunez and Yuly Melissa Cerrato Nunez, Plaintiffs-appellants, v. West Bend Mutual Insurance Company and Alpine Insulation, d/b/a A&B Drywall Rock Solid, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Filed January 9, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of and oral argument by Eugene Bykhovsky of Bykhovsky Law, LLC, Milwaukee.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Patricia Epstein Putney and David G. Ress of Bell, Moore & Richter, S.C., Madison. There was oral argument by David G. Ress.

Before Stark, P.J., Hruz and Seidl, JJ.


¶ 1 This appeal requires us to address the following issue: can an employee of a temporary help agency who has been injured in the course of his or her employment and who has not made a worker's compensation claim bring a tort claim against his or her temporary employer? Based on the plain language of the relevant statutes, we conclude...

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