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 ...

Tagged with: Death Benefits Firefighter Decedent Occupational Disease

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 ...

Tagged with: Death Benefits Employment Law Substitution of Party Sufficiency Of Evidence Workers' compensation

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.)

Tagged with: Death Benefits Incontestable Policy Insurance Misstatement Of Age

Hadley v. Beco Concrete Products, Inc. (MLW No. 69904/Case No. SD34191 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Rahmeyer, J.)

Tagged with: Calculation Death Benefits Safety Penalty Workers’ Compensation

White v. Conagra Packaged Foods, LLC (MLW No. 69749/Case No. WD79449 – 23 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.)

Tagged with: Cardiac Event Death Benefits Prevailing Factor Workers’ Compensation

Campbell v. Trees Unlimited, Inc. (MLW No. 69738/Case No. SD34090 – 22 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)

Tagged with: Course And Scope Death Benefits One-Car Accident Workers’ Compensation

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.)

Tagged with: Death Benefits Insurance Minnesota Law

Hinkle v. A.B. Dick Company (MLW No. 66607/Case No. WD76952 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Howard, J.)

Tagged with: Approval Death Benefits Workers' compensation

Riley v. City of Liberty (MLW No. 65304/Case No. WD75879 – 14 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Witt, J.)

Tagged with: Death Benefits Workers' compensation

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.)

Tagged with: Condition Precedent Death Benefits Insurance

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.)

Tagged with: Beneficiary Designation Death Benefits ERISA Shepherd