Bachand v. Connecticut General Life Insurance

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• concluding that the legislature intended the exclusive means for pursuing remedies for violations of the Fair Employment Act to be through the administrative agency, then called the Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations
• concluding that the legislature intended the exclusive means for pursuing remedies for violations of the Fair Employment Act to be through the administrative agency, then called the Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations
• discharged employee may not recover punitive damages because Fair Employment Act precluded court from awarding compensatory damages for emotional distress
• “[S]ince the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act specifically states that all remedies are to be pursued through [the Department], . . . that avenue is the exclusive means by which the remedy may be pursued.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).