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Where a claimant of unemployment benefits challenged decisions of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission, the claimant did not timely seek review of the denial of her claim for benefits and of the finding that there was an overpayment, so ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Overpayment

Where a claimant of unemployment compensation challenged the denial of benefits, the commission erred in finding that the claimant was disqualified from receiving benefits because he violated the employer’s rule against poor performance because a general rule prohibiting poor performance ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Misconduct Poor Performance Rule

Where the Missouri Department of Transportation challenged the quashing of a writ that sought to prohibit the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission from accepting additional evidence in a workers’ compensation case, the Missouri Supreme Court’s holding in Mantia v. Missouri ...

Tagged with: Additional Evidence “Proper Review”

Where an employer challenged an award of workers’ compensation benefits to the estate of a deceased employee, Section 287.580 applied and did not mandate the application of Rule 52.13, and the requirements of the statute were satisfied, so the employer ...

Tagged with: Deceased Employee Successor in Interest Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where appellant challenged the grant of summary judgment to his city employer on a claim for disability discrimination, the judgment did not provide a basis as to why the court was granting the motion, so it cannot be determined whether ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Finality Of Judgments

Where the Second Injury Fund challenged a finding that a claimant was permanently and totally disabled in part due to preexisting conditions, triggering fund liability, the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission exceeded its statutory authority when it determined the fund’s ...

Tagged with: SIF Liability Statutory Authority

Where a claimant, who was injured when he tripped on stairs at work, challenged the denial of worker’s compensation benefits, there was no credible evidence that his risk of walking down stairs at the time of the injury was greater ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Risk of Injury Stairway Accident

Where a claimant challenged the reversal of an award of permanent total disability benefits against the Second Injury Fund, the decision is reversed and remanded with directions to reinstate the award because the compensable occupational disease occurred before January 1, ...

Tagged with: Occupational Disease Second Injury Fund

(1)Where defendant employer argued that a trial court erred when it refused to cap the $7.2 million punitive damages award in a race-discrimination case, the court did not err in refusing to apply the cap because that would be an ...

Tagged with: Me Too Evidence Punitive Damages Race Discrimination

Where an employee challenged the denial of worker’s compensation benefits for orthopedic injuries that she suffered when she tripped accidentally at a doctor’s office where she was being treated for respiratory symptoms from a work-related chemical exposure, the judgment is ...

Tagged with: Accidental Tripping Prevailing Factor Work Injury

Where a claimant challenged the denial of permanent total disability benefits, the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission erred by requiring the physician who testified about the claimant’s work-related injury to state an opinion on the claimant’s ability to obtain future ...

Tagged with: Future Employment Physician Testimony PTD