Tag Archive | "workers’ compensation"
Appeals court orders payments for workplace injury
A hospital must pay compensation, including disability payments, to a former nurse who injured her knee at work, even though the injury wasn’t the main cause for the treatment she underwent.
Continue reading...Senate pushes work comp changes
Thursday, March 17, 2011
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The Missouri Senate today passed a bill that would prevent people from suing co-employees for work-related injuries.
Continue reading...UPDATE: Lawsuit would force money into Second Injury Fund
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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Three people who are at “imminent risk” of being deprived of disability benefits have filed a federal lawsuit that would force the state to put more money in the Second Injury Fund.
Continue reading...House OKs work comp law changes
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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The Missouri House has given first-round approval to a bill that would tweak the state’s workers’ compensation laws.
Continue reading...Woman seeks to force payment of $430,000 award
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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When a legal secretary and her former employer took their chances on an open-ended workers’ compensation settlement, neither party knew how much the final payout could be. In addition to an $85,000 lump sum, the Kansas City law firm and its insurance provider left the amount Stephanie Meyer-Linquist would receive for lifelong medical expenses in [...]
Continue reading...Second Injury Fund faces trouble
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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The Missouri Attorney General’s office says it will no longer settle new cases from the Second Injury Fund. In a brief memo issued to attorneys yesterday, the AG’s office said “effective immediately, unless an offer has been previously accepted, all Second Injury Fund offers are withdrawn.” No further explanation was given in the memo. In [...]
Continue reading...High court refuses return to old work comp law
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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The Missouri Supreme Court has turned down a chance to reinstate a section of caselaw thrown away four years ago when the state revamped workers’ compensation law. The court ruled today that a highway worker can’t get compensation for his knee injury. The injury occurred while he was walking at the job site, but nothing [...]
Continue reading...State cuts five ALJ positions
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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The state has laid off four administrative law judges, and declined to fill a fifth vacancy, in what workers’ compensation lawyers say may be an unprecedented move. Peter Lyskowski, acting director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, confirmed this morning that Henry Herschel and June Doughty from the Jefferson City office; John Tackes from the [...]
Continue reading...State high court to hear arguments about workers’ comp injury definition
Friday, May 8, 2009
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The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a workers’ compensation suit that will likely define injuries “arising out of and in the course of the employment.” The case is Miller v. Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission, and in February the appellate court in St. Louis transferred the case to the state high court. [...]
Continue reading...Court orders work comp for woman who lost colon
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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An appeals court says a woman who lost part of her colon after contracting a disease will get workers’ compensation after all. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said Barbara Vickers, 67, established a reasonable probability that her bout of clostridium difficile, or C. diff, was contracted from her work doing laundry for a [...]
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