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Not Pleading Exclusivity Defense Changes Ruling
08/21/2015
. Kansas City Power & Light Co. No. WD77851 08182015 published.
Facts The Kansas City Power & Light Co. hired Enerfab to perform maintenance and repair on a boiler at one of its power plants.
Enerfab employees therefore came to the KCP&L property at least four times a week to perform boiler
Category: News
OSHA, KCP &L Renew Safety Alliance
07/17/2006
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Kansas City Power and Light KCP&L renewed their alliance addressing overhead power-line hazards in the telecommunication and cable television installation industries.
OSHA reported the program has an "exemplary" record with a zero-fatality
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Contractor's Employee Can Proceed With Personal Injury Claim Against Utility
05/07/2018
coverage.
James Barger worked for Projectile. In 2013 he came to the KCP&L plant in La Cygne Kansas to clean the condenser tubes. He was standing on a catwalk to access the tubes when the grating fell out from under him. Barger was able to grab hold of the catwalk and prevent himself from falling
Category: News
Appellate Court: Comp is Not Exclusive Remedy for Occ Diseases
09/15/2011
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On Tuesday Missouri's Western District Court of Appeals ruled in a 7-2 decision that the exclusivity of workers' compensation does not apply to occupational disease claims.
In KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. The Honorable Jacqueline Cook the appellate court analyzed whether Section
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State Ex Rel. KCP &L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. the Honorable Jacqueline Cook
12/17/2020
IN THE MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS WESTERN DISTRICT
WD73462
September 13 2011
STATE EX REL.
KCP&L GREATER MISSOURI OPERATIONS COMPANY RELATOR
v.
THE HONORABLE JACQUELINE COOK CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT RESPONDENT.
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
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MEM Elects New Board Member, Reelects Another
08/09/2011
-year term.
O'Neal has served as an MEM board member since April 2010.
Caisley is vice president of marketing and public affairs for Kansas City Power and Light KCP&L MEM reported.
MEM spokeswoman Heather Baer told WorkCompCentral on Monday that Caisley is filling the term of Douglas Morgan
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Peters v. Treasurer of Missouri
12/17/2020
although the Act draws a clear distinction between injuries by accident and injuries by occupational disease State ex rel. KCP & L Greater Mo. Operations Co. v. Cook 353 S.W.3d 14 18 Mo.App.W.D. 2011 Section 287.220 refers generally to "compensable injuries" and does not limit the Fund's liability
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Treasurer of State of Missouri-Custodian of 2nd Injury Fund v. Stiers
12/17/2020
statutory interpretation is to ascertain the legislature's intent from the plain and ordinary meaning of the language used and to give effect to that intent if possible. State ex rel. KCP&L Greater Mo. Operations Co. v. Cook 353 S.W.3d 14 17 Mo. App. 2011 en banc. We presume the legislature intended
Category: Cases
Court Adds Occ. Disease Claims to 2nd Injury Fund Worries
10/10/2012
did not encompass an occupational disease based on the appellate court's en banc ruling last year in State ex rel. KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. Cook.
The Court of Appeals however was not persuaded.
In the KCP&L case the court ruled that the Workers' Compensation Law's exclusivity
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2nd Appeals Ct. Finds no Exclusive Remedy for Occ. Disease Claims
09/13/2013
opinion written by Judge Kurt S. Odenwald said it took instruction from the Western District's reasoning in its 2011 decision in State ex rel. KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Co. v. Cook despite "compelling arguments" by the defense.
"We are persuaded that the narrow definition of 'accident' as
Category: News
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