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Temporary Worker Can't Sue Borrowing Employer

06/25/2021
Co. and the Cano Container Corp. are packaging companies. In 2015 IPC purchased a glue machine from Cano and assumed its lease of a packaging plant in Aurora. IPC contracted with Kane County Personnel Inc. a temporary staffing agency for workers. KCP hired Lucila Torrijos and sent her to the

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Appeals Decision in Occupational Disease Lawsuit Shakes Employers

09/19/2011
workers does not apply to occupational disease claims. In the lawsuit - KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. The Honorable Jacqueline Cook - the appellate court analyzed whether Section 287.120.1 of the Missouri Revised Statutes barred Monroe Gunter's lawsuit for mesothelioma against the company

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Bill to Return Occ. Diseases under Comp System Advances

01/29/2013
Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled in September 2011 that Monroe Gunter could go forward with his lawsuit against KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Co. The appeals court said his ailment which Gunter alleged arose from exposure to asbestos particles did not arise from an

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Employer, Hit With $28M Civil Judgment for Worker's Lung Ailments, Gets New Trial

10/07/2016
Court of Appeals issued a decision in State ex rel. KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. Cook which found that an occupational disease from repeated exposure to a noxious agent was not an "injury" for purposes of Section 287.220 because it does not arise from an "accident" which was defined as "a

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Attorneys: Occ. Disease Civil Suits still Possible after Reforms

09/16/2013
Missouri Alliance for Retired Americans v. DWC two of Missouri's three intermediate appellate courts have issued decisions reiterating that injured workers could file civil suits for occupational diseases. The Western District Court of Appeals issued a decision in 2011 in the case of State ex rel. KCP&L

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Ex-NFL Players File Civil Suit against Kansas City Chiefs

12/05/2013
suits for occupational diseases. The Western District Court of Appeals issued a decision in 2011 in the case of State ex rel. KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. Cook and the Eastern District Court of Appeals came to a similar conclusion in the case of Amesquita et al. v. Gilster Mary-Lee Corp. on

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Wyman et al. v. Missouri Dep't of Mental Health et al.

12/17/2020
"strict construction means that a statute can be given no broader application than is warranted by its plain and unambiguous terms." Robinson v. Hooker 323 S.W.3d 418 423 Mo. App. W.D. 2010; see also State ex rel. KCP & L Greater Mo. Operations Co. v. Cook 353 S.W.3d 14 20 Mo. App. W.D. 2011

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