Blog Posts in August, 2017

Impact of Senate Bill 66 on Workers’ Compensation Rights

This is the fourth and final blog post in our series dealing with Missouri’s workers’ compensation law, and how it deals with employers who fire workers after they make a claim for a workplace injury. Earlier posts dealt with: How Missouri handled this issue, before 2014 , The landmark workers’ compensation case that changed the law , and The new bill that allows employees to be fired, so long as ...

Missouri is 1 of 3 States Without a Ban on Texting

Distracted drivers are quickly becoming one of the most common culprits in a car accident in western Missouri, causing dozens of deaths and hundreds of personal injuries in St. Joseph and Kansas City every year. This is in large part because Missouri is one of the very few states in the U.S. that still has not made texting and driving illegal for everyone on the road. The Problem of Texting and ...

Workers’ Compensation Claims Grounds for Discharge Under New Bill

This blog is the third part of a four-piece look into one of the main issues of workers’ compensation law: The ability of employers to fire employees for making a workers’ comp claim. We’ve already covered how Missouri handled this issue before 2014 , and the landmark case that changed the field that year . Here, we’ll examine how the state legislature reacted to strip workers of their new gains. ...

Tyson Foods Settles Lawsuit with Workers

[ Disclaimer : The attorneys at the Smith Law Office did not represent the plaintiffs in this case. If you think you are entitled to a part of the settlement, contact the attorneys on record] Workers’ compensation issues go well beyond the scope of a workplace injury and the claims process that follows. It also includes the way employers react to the claims of workers and how they treat workers ...