Workers' Compensation in Missouri

When you are hurt on the job, collect the workers' compensation benefits you need with guidance from our accomplished workers' compensation attorneys in St. Louis.

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Workers' Compensation in Missouri Succeeding in your Injury Claim

Including insights on work injury claims such as:

What do you do if you are injured on the job?
How do workers' comp claims work?
What are the possible outcomes of my case?

Chapter 1: What is Workers’ Compensation?

Introduction I wrote this book to help guide injured workers and their lawyers through the complex statute that provides their exclusive re...

Chapter 2: Workers’ Compensation Definitions

Definitions Accident: A specific event during a single work shift which includes bodily trauma or strain which causes symptoms of an injury...

Chapter 3: What To Do When Injured On The Job

What To Do If You're Injured on the Job First, make sure of two things: a. That you were hurt at work (not going to or coming from work) a...

Chapter 4: Understanding Your Benefits

In order to understand how the workers’ compensation system works, injured workers must know the type of benefits that they are seeking to...

Chapter 5: Managing Relationships

Managing relationships is crucial to maximizing how you use the workers’ compensation system. As explained in the introduction, the worker...

Chapter 6: Biggest Mistakes to Avoid

This chapter discusses the biggest mistakes that you will want to avoid if you are trying to settle your claim on your own. These mistakes c...

Chapter 7: Why Hire an Attorney?

Why Hire an Attorney? 1. Higher settlements. As I mentioned in the introduction, a recent study conducted by Missouri Lawyers Media showe...

Chapter 8: Types of Injuries

There are many types of injuries sustained at work, but a common denominator of all workplace injuries is the difficulty to fully treat and ...

Chapter 9: Workers’ Comp Claim – How It Works

There are a number of different steps to any worker’s compensation claim. First, after an injury the employer should file a report with th...

Chapter 10: Hardship

A hardship occurs when an employer/insured denied benefits due to an injured worker. R.S.Mo § 287.203. This can be refusing to provide medi...

Chapter 11: Trying a Workers’ Comp Claim

We try to resolve many of our Workers' Compensation claims. However, we do have instances where the employer will not comply with the law an...

Chapter 12: Settlement of Workers’ Comp Claims

When an employee has a pending workers compensation claim which has not been fully resolved, it is usually possible to settle the claim earl...

Chapter 13: Subrogation in Work Comp

Sometimes when a compensable work injury occurs, the employee also has and makes a claim against a third party for that recovery. This happe...

Chapter 14: Retaliatory Discharge

Sometimes employers fire an employee because they have been injured on the job or have filed a claim under workers’ compensation. This is ...

Chapter 15: Appendix 1 and 2

Appendix One View Chart 1: Permanent Partial Disability Body Parts View State Average Weekly Wage Chart View Claim for Compensation Form ...

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