Banks v. Zweifel (Case No. SC90131 – 3 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Teitelman, J.; all concur) Where a worker, who was injured in an auto accident, recovered $100,000 from the other driver, and the Second Injury Fund sought a ...

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Judge Kurt S. Odenwald invoked Brahm’s “Variations on a Theme of Paganini” to reject the city of St. Louis’ arguments that an injured employee shouldn’t be considered permanently and totally disabled. The city argued that an earlier administrative judge decision ...

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Some appeals court judges have urged the Legislature to modify a section of unemployment law that forced the court to reach a result “totally devoid of any concept of fairness.” The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said this morning ...

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A woman who contracted a disease that resulted in the loss of her colon is eligible for workers’ compensation, according to the Missouri Court of Appeals. The court reversed a decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission, which held ...

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An appeals court says a woman who lost part of her colon after contracting a disease will get workers’ compensation after all. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said Barbara Vickers, 67, established a reasonable probability that her bout ...

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Workers are now required to give notice to an employer of an occupational disease or repetitive trauma, but only once the injury has been diagnosed as work-related, the Court of Appeals has held in a  first interpretation of the new ...

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A Missouri appeals court issued a decision this week likely to please the state’s Republican-led Legislature. On Tuesday, the appellate court in St. Louis said a Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission employee was not injured in the course of his ...

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The Labor and Industrial Relations Commission doesn’t need to hear testimony from an expert witness when the injury in question is not technical, an appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District reversed the commission’s decision ...

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