Workers whose injuries are no longer addressed by the workers’ compensation system have the right to sue their employers for recovery, a splintered Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The decision, almost 15 months in the making, answered a lawsuit that ...

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Almost 15 months after it heard arguments in the case, the Missouri Supreme Court has issued a splintered decision in a constitutional challenge to the Legislature’s reform of workers’ compensation. The lawsuit, argued in November 2007, presented a series of ...

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Where a highway worker was injured when his knee “popped” as he walked briskly to his truck on a job site, the injury did not arise out of and in the course of the worker’s employment because the evidence did ...

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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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For Nancy Mogab and other workers’ compensation attorneys, the last year has been an uncertain and frustrating waiting game. Lawsuits and trials over workplace injuries are going forward, but the results hang in limbo while the Missouri Supreme Court reviews ...

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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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A Missouri appeals court has spelled out the responsibilities of the Workers’ Compensation Division in helping injured workers gain benefits from bankrupt companies. The court also chastised a state guaranty corporation for doing little to help worker Richard Jones secure ...

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