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Application for review; motion to strike WD69637 Paul Jones, Respondent, v. Lico Steel, Appellant, Treasurer of the State of Missouri – Custodian of the Second Injury Fund, Respondent Appeal From: The Labor and Industrial Relations Commission Handdown Date: 2/10/2009 Opinion ...

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Where an employer submitted an application for review of an award of workers’ compensation benefits and the application included assignments of error that merely asserted that the evidence and the law do not support the decision, the assignments of error ...

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Where a worker’s compensation claimant appealed the denial of benefits, the unexplained absence of any reference to a fall at work in her treating doctor’s notes raised a legitimate issue of credibility, and the denial is affirmed because the claimant ...

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(1)Where a workers’ compensation claimant committed suicide on the same day that she was awarded permanent total disability benefits and the commission allowed the claimant’s husband to proceed as her successor but did not address whether he was entitled to ...

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(1)Where three doctors and a vocational expert testified credibly that a worker was permanently and totally disabled and the administrative law judge explicitly considered all contrary opinions, sufficient evidence supported the finding of PTD. (2)Where an employer in a workers’ ...

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Where an environmental safety manager did not show that his duties were greater than other management personnel at his company and his employer’s records showed that he worked 40-hour weeks and took regular vacations, sufficient evidence supported a finding that ...

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Bankrupt employer; notice of claim   WD69299 Richard Jones, Appellant, v. GST Steel Co., Respondent Appeal From: The Labor And Industrial Relations Commission Handdown Date: 1/6/2009 Opinion Author: Judge James M. Smart Jr. Opinion Vote: Judges Hardwick and Welsh concur ...

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Expert testimony; requirement   WD69674 Roger Bock, Appellant, v. City of Columbia, Respondent Appeal From: Labor and Industrial Relations Commission Handdown Date: 12/30/2008 Opinion Author: Judge Ronald R. Holliger Opinion Vote: Judges Hardwick and Welsh concur Roger Bock (Bock) appeals ...

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Even though an employee failed to file a notice of claim in his employer’s bankruptcy case for his potential workers’ compensation claim for hearing loss injuries, the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission erred in finding that his claim for benefits ...

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