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Workers’ Comp: Occupational Disease-Death Benefits-Firefighter Decedent
Where a city employer challenged the grant of death and burial benefits under the Missouri Workers’ Compensation Act to the wife of a deceased employee, competent evidence established the required nexus between the decedent’s occupational exposure to carcinogenic fumes, smoke and particulates while working as a firefighter and his development of follicular non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and [&helli[...]
Workers’ Compensation: Death Benefits-Sufficiency of Evidence-Substitution of Party
Where an employer challenged an award of death benefits to a deceased worker’s son after he was substituted as a personal representative after the worker’s husband died, the evidence was sufficient to support the finding that the work-related ankle injury was the prevailing factor that caused a fatal pulmonary embolism, so the award was proper, […]
Insurance : Death Benefits – Misstatement Of Age – Incontestable Policy
Yang v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company(MLW No. 71944/Case No. 17-1895 – 8 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Arnold, J.)
Workers’ Compensation : Death Benefits – Calculation – Safety Penalty
Hadley v. Beco Concrete Products, Inc. (MLW No. 69904/Case No. SD34191 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Rahmeyer, J.)
Workers’ Compensation : Death Benefits – Cardiac Event – Prevailing Factor
White v. Conagra Packaged Foods, LLC (MLW No. 69749/Case No. WD79449 – 23 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.)
Workers’ Compensation : Death Benefits – One-Car Accident – Course And Scope
Campbell v. Trees Unlimited, Inc. (MLW No. 69738/Case No. SD34090 – 22 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)
Insurance : Death Benefits – Insurable Interest – Minnesota Law
PHL Variable Insurance Company v. Bank of Utah (MLW No. 67551/Case No. 14-1210 – 15 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, J.)
Workers’ Compensation : Death Benefits – Lump Sum Settlement – Approval
Hinkle v. A.B. Dick Company (MLW No. 66607/Case No. WD76952 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Howard, J.)
Workers’ Compensation : Heart Attack – Death Benefits – Arising Out Of
Riley v. City of Liberty (MLW No. 65304/Case No. WD75879 – 14 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Witt, J.)
Insurance: Death Benefits – Condition Precedent – Initial Premium Payment
Dallas v. American General Life and Accident Insurance Company (MLW No. 64764/Case No. 12-1835 – 11 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Riley, C.J.)
ERISA: Death Benefits – Beneficiary Designation – Inadequate Record
Trustees of the Electricians’ Salary Deferral Plan v. Wright (MLW No. 64062/Case No. 11-2051 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)
Workers’ Compensation: Death Benefits – Settlement Agreement – Approval
Roth v. J.J. Brouk & Company Corp. (MLW No. 62982/Case No. ED96708 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahrens, P.J.)
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