Workers' Compensation Law

Sep 18, 2019

Employment: Workers’Compensation-Permanent Total Disability Benefits

Plaintiff appealed from the commission’s final award reversing an administrative law judge’s award granting plaintiff permanent total disability benefits due to a work injury in which plaintiff was exposed to […]

Sep 18, 2019

Employment: Workers’ Compensation-Employer Liability

Plaintiff appealed from the award denying his claim for workers’ compensation benefits. On appeal, plaintiff argued that the overwhelming weight of the evidence established that defendant was a construction-industry employer […]

Aug 13, 2019

Employment Law: Workers’ Compensation-Work-Related Injury

Claimant appealed the denial of her workers’ compensation claim, after the commission determined that claimant’s injury did not arise out of and in the course of her employment because her […]

Jul 2, 2019

Employment: Workers’ Compensation-Second Injury Fund-Statute of Limitations

Plaintiff appealed the final award denying his claim for benefits from the Second Injury Fund for hearing loss and tinnitus plaintiff alleged was caused by his exposure to industrial noise […]

Jun 12, 2019

Workers’ comp benefits upheld for fireman killed by cancer

The Court of Appeals Western District has upheld the workers’ compensation benefits granted to the widow of a firefighter in a Kansas City suburb who died of cancer. David Cheney […]

Apr 1, 2019

Negligence: Personal Injury-Workers’ Compensation-Gross Negligence

Plaintiff was severely injured when a wire disconnected by defendant’s work team snapped free and struck plaintiff in the face. Plaintiff required multiple surgeries and missed a substantial amount […]

Jan 11, 2019

Workers’ Compensation: Permanent and Total Disability Determination-Competent Evidence

Claimant’s doctor and two vocational/rehabilitation counselors determined that claimant was permanently and totally disabled. An administrative law judge awarded claimant weekly benefits and the commission affirmed. The fund appealed, arguing […]

Jan 3, 2019

Workers’ Compensation: SIF-Prior Convictions

Where a claimant challenged the denial of benefits from the Second Injury Fund, arguing that exhibits showing that he was convicted of Social Security fraud were improperly admitted, the judgment […]

Dec 31, 2018

Worker receives settlement after workplace lifting injury

A Springfield man injured at work while lifting a 60-pound box three years ago has agreed to settle a workers’-compensation claim with his former employer for $383,500. William J. Botts, […]

Dec 31, 2018

Workers’ Compensation: Permanent and Total Disability Determination-Competent Evidence

Claimant’s doctor and two vocational/rehabilitation counselors determined that claimant was permanently and totally disabled. An administrative law judge awarded claimant weekly benefits and the commission affirmed. The fund appealed, arguing […]

Sep 13, 2018