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Workers’ Compensation: Appellate Mandate – Findings – Safety Rule

Stephanie Maniscalco//January 31, 2013//

Workers’ Compensation: Appellate Mandate – Findings – Safety Rule

Stephanie Maniscalco//January 31, 2013//

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Where the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission was directed by appellate mandate to make additional findings as to whether a reduction of an award was appropriate for a worker whose failure to follow his employer’s safety rule allegedly caused his injury, the existing mandate authorized and required the commission to issue a new final award, so the mandate did not need to be recalled or modified.

Motion denied.

Carver v. Delta Innovative Services (MLW No. 64596/Case No. WD74266 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahuja, J.) Appealed from the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Mark E. Kelly and Kristi L. Pittman, Liberty, for appellant) (John D. Jurcyk, Kansas City, Kansas, and Andrew J. Dickson, Kansas City, Missouri, for respondent).

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