Blog Posts in May, 2022

Why is the Second Injury Fund Statute So Confusing?

Many of the recent disputes in Missouri workers’ compensation law have centered on the reading of Missouri Statute 287.220. The Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (LIRC) has been repeatedly reprimanded by Missouri courts for applying the wrong subsection of the law. Why has the LIRC, which is supposed to be intimately familiar with workers’ compensation law in the state, consistently made ...

NHTSA Releases Fatal Car Accident Data from 2021

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released its preliminary estimates about fatal car accidents across the country in 2021. On paper, the results do not look good, with a 16-year high in the number of roadway fatalities and a staggering increase from the year prior. But the data is misleading in several years – sometimes extremely misleading. While the numbers are still ...

LIRC Affirms Award Under Last Exposure Rule

Given the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission’s (LIRC) longstanding trend towards denying any claim for workers’ compensation that it can, a recent affirmation of an administrative law judge’s grant of temporary total disability and survivor benefits comes as a surprise. The specific facts of the case offered an opportunity for the LIRC to deny the claim, but it chose not to. Diesel Mechanic ...

What Compensation is Available in Personal Injury Cases?

In our personal injury blog posts, we have talked a lot about the need for victims to get the compensation that they deserve. But what does that mean? What types of compensation is a victim entitled to receive after, say, a car accident ? What Compensation Can Victims Recover? The short answer is that victims are entitled to financial compensation for all of their losses – be they financial, ...