Title XVIII — LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

287.123. Insurers to establish safety engineering and management services program — requirements — division to maintain registry. — 1. Each insurance carrier writing workers' compensation insurance in this state shall establish a program whereby the carrier shall have available a…

287.124. Department of labor and industrial relations, certification of employer safety programs, when. — The department of labor and industrial relations shall complete all applications filed prior to January 1, 1994, from employers for certification of employer safety programs.…

287.126. Toll-free telephone number for workers' compensation information, division to establish. — The division of workers' compensation shall establish a toll-free number for employees injured on the job to provide information regarding employees' rights, obligations and benefi…

287.127. Notice, employer to post, contents — division to develop, distribute, and publish notice, when — penalty. — 1. Beginning January 1, 1993, all employers shall post a notice at their place of employment, in a sufficient number of places on the premises to assure that such …

287.128. Unlawful acts, penalties — fraud or noncompliance, complaint may be filed, effect — fraud and noncompliance unit established, purpose, confidentiality of records — annual report, contents. — 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly present or cause to be prese…

287.129. False billing practices of health care provider, defined, effect — department of commerce and insurance, powers — penalty. — 1. A health care provider commits a fraudulent workers' compensation insurance act if he or she knowingly and with intent to defraud presents, cau…

287.130. Employer's liability joint and several — contribution allowable. — If the injury or death occurs while the employee is in the joint service of two or more employers, their liability shall be joint and several, and the employee may hold any or all of such employers. As be…

287.135. Managed care services, department to establish program to certify organizations, procedures — effect on fees and services. — 1. The department of commerce and insurance shall establish a program whereby managed care organizations in this state shall be certified by the d…

287.140. Employer to provide medical and other services, transportation, artificial devices, reactivation of claim — duties of health care providers — refusal of treatment, effect — medical evidence — division, commission responsibilities — notice to health care provider of worke…

287.141. Physical rehabilitation, defined, division of workers' compensation to administer — procedure. — 1. The purpose of this section is to restore the injured person as soon as possible and as nearly as possible to a condition of self-support and maintenance as an able-bodied…

287.143. Vocational rehabilitation services, not mandatory — testing and assessment. — As a guide to the interpretation and application of sections 287.144 to 287.149, sections 287.144 to 287.149 shall not be construed to require the employer to provide vocational rehabilitation …

287.144. Definitions. — As used in sections 287.144 to 287.149, the following words mean: (1) "Appropriate vocational testing", appropriate vocational testing may be included when a new job is necessary for consideration for an injured worker. Appropriate vocational testing may i…

287.145. Rehabilitation practitioners, providers, certification of, how. — 1. Any person who has met the requirements in section 287.144 for a rehabilitation practitioner shall request in written form certification from the division. The division shall, after confirming that such…

287.146. Employee authorized to receive vocational rehabilitation, when — duties of director. — 1. When an employee has sustained injury of sufficient severity, as provided in section 287.148, as the result of an injury arising out of and in the course of employment, the employee…

287.148. Loss of suitable, gainful employment, how determined — severe injury, defined — plan, duration, costs allowed. — 1. Within one hundred and twenty days of the date of the injury, the employer shall determine whether the injured worker has sustained an injury that results …

287.149. Benefits to be paid, when — reduction of benefits, when. — 1. Temporary total disability or temporary partial disability benefits shall be paid throughout the rehabilitative process until the employee reaches maximum medical improvement, unless such benefits are terminat…

287.150. Subrogation to rights of employee or dependents against third person, effect of recovery — construction design professional, immunity from liability, when, exception — waiver of subrogation rights on certain contracts void, employer's lien on subrogation recovery, when —…

287.160. Waiting period — compensation, how paid — interest, how computed — not credit to employer for wages or benefits paid, exception. — 1. Except as provided in section 287.140, no compensation shall be payable for the first three days or less of disability during which the e…

287.170. Temporary total disability, amount to be paid — method of payment — disqualification, when — post injury misconduct defined — benefits not payable, when. — 1. For temporary total disability the employer shall pay compensation for not more than four hundred weeks during t…

287.180. Temporary partial disability, amount to be paid — method of payment. — 1. For temporary partial disability, compensation shall be paid during such disability but not for more than one hundred weeks, and shall be sixty-six and two-thirds percent of the difference between …

287.190. Permanent partial disability, amount to be paid — permanent partial disability defined — permanent total and partial total disability require certification by physician on compensability — award reduced when. — 1. For permanent partial disability, which shall be in addit…

287.195. Claims for hernia, proof required. — In all claims for compensation for hernia resulting from injury arising out of and in the course of the employment, it must be definitely proved to the satisfaction of the division or the commission: (1) That there was an accident or …

287.197. Occupational deafness — tests, claims, awards, liability of employer, effect of hearing aid. — 1. Losses of hearing due to industrial noise for compensation purposes shall be confined to the frequencies of five hundred, one thousand, and two thousand cycles per second. L…

287.200. Permanent total disability, amount to be paid — suspension of payments, when — toxic exposure, treatment of claims. — 1. Compensation for permanent total disability shall be paid during the continuance of such disability from the date of maximum medical improvement for t…

287.203. Termination of compensation by employer, employee right to hearing — assessment of costs. — Whenever the employer has provided compensation under section 287.170, 287.180 or 287.200, and terminates such compensation, the employer shall notify the employee of such termina…

287.210. Physical examination of employee — exchange of medical records — admissibility of physician's, coroner's records — autopsy may be ordered. — 1. After an employee has received an injury he shall from time to time thereafter during disability submit to reasonable medical e…

287.215. Injured employee to be furnished copy of his statement, otherwise inadmissible as evidence — statement, what is not to be included. — No statement in writing made or given by an injured employee, whether taken and transcribed by a stenographer, signed or unsigned by the …

287.220. Compensation and payment of compensation for disability — second injury fund created, services covered, actuarial studies required — failure of employer to insure, penalty — records open to public, when — concurrent employers, effect — priority of payment of liabilities …

287.223. Missouri mesothelioma risk management fund created — definitions — issuance of payments, when — board of trustees, appointment, meetings, duties. — 1. There is hereby created the "Missouri Mesothelioma Risk Management Fund", which shall be a body corporate and politic. T…

287.230. Payment of compensation at death of employee — exceptions — abrogation of case law. — 1. The death of the injured employee shall not affect the liability of the employer to furnish compensation as in this chapter provided, so far as the liability has accrued and become p…

287.240. Death benefits and burial expenses, amount, to whom paid and when paid — dependent defined — death benefits, how distributed — record of dependents, employer to keep — dependents to report to division, procedure. — If the injury causes death, either with or without disab…

287.241. Death benefits, inconsistent with section 287.240, when. — The dependent and the employer may, by agreement, enter into a structured settlement which provides for different weekly benefits than provided in section 287.240. Any such settlement must be secured by indemnity…

287.243. Line of duty compensation — definitions — claim procedure — distribution — no subrogation rights for employers or insurers — grievance procedures — sunset date — fund created, use of moneys — rulemaking authority. — 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the …

287.245. Volunteer firefighters, grants for workers' compensation insurance premiums — or critical illness benefits pool. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Association", volunteer fire protection associations as defined in section 320.300; (2) "St…

287.250. Compensation, computation of — average weekly wage, division or commission may determine, when — additional compensation for persons under twenty-one, when — multiple employers, computation of coverage — weekly wage — compromise settlement. — 1. Except as otherwise provi…

287.252. Cafeteria plan payroll deductions, not to reduce computation of employee compensation. — Where an employer has established a cafeteria plan for the employees of the employer in accordance with Section 125 of Title 26 United States Code, no payroll deduction or other redu…

287.253. Monetary bonus, effect on benefits. — A monetary bonus, paid by an employer to an employee, of up to three percent of the employee's yearly compensation from such employer shall not have the effect of increasing the compensation amount used in calculating the employee's …

287.260. Compensation to have priority — not assignable — exceptions. — 1. The compensation payable under this chapter, whether or not it has been awarded or is due, shall not be assignable, shall be exempt from attachment, garnishment, and execution, shall not be subject to seto…

287.266. Payments made to public assistance recipients to be a debt due state, recovery by state — attorney's fees — assignment of rights — apportionment by judge, when. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Provider", any individual, corporation, public or…

287.270. Benefits from other sources no bar to compensation, exception, professional athletes. — No savings or insurance of the injured employee, nor any benefits derived from any other source than the employer or the employer's insurer for liability under this chapter, shall be …

287.280. Employer's entire liability to be covered, self-insurer or approved carrier — exception — group of employers may qualify as self-insurers, requirements — rules — confidential records. — 1. Every employer subject to the provisions of this chapter shall, on either an indiv…

287.282. Employee leasing arrangements, coverage required. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of section 287.280, every employer who obtains part of his work force from another entity through an employee leasing arrangement, or who employs the services of an enti…

287.290. Employee not to pay cost of insurance. — No part of the cost of such insurance shall be assessed against, collected from or paid by any employee. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3714) Prior revision: 1929 § 3324 (1963) Where city failed to maintain minimum security required for …

287.300. Employer's liability primary or secondary — notice and service, when sufficient. — If the employer is not insured his liability hereunder shall be primary and direct. If he is insured his liability shall be secondary and indirect, and his insurer shall be primarily and d…

287.310. Policies to be approved by department — deductible plans authorized, requirements. — 1. Every policy of insurance against liability under this chapter shall be in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and shall be in a form approved by the director of the depart…

287.335. Determinations review board, created, purpose — code classifications, classification system, review of, duties. — 1. There is hereby established the "Workers' Compensation Determinations Review Board" within the department of commerce and insurance which shall exist to r…

287.340. Insurance companies must keep reserve. — No insurance carrier shall write any insurance against liability hereunder unless it maintains such reserves as are required by law, or in the absence thereof such reserves as may be required by the director of the department of c…

287.350. Insurance companies to make report. — Every insurance carrier writing insurance for liability hereunder, or the liability of employers rejecting this chapter, shall report to the director of the department of commerce and insurance, in accordance with such rules as he ma…

287.360. Director may suspend or revoke permits and ask for a receiver. — For any violation of the provisions of this chapter the director of the department of commerce and insurance may suspend or revoke the authority of any insurance carrier to do business in this state. If any…

287.370. Compensation in lieu of insurance, how provided. — Any employer or group of employers may enter into or continue any agreement with his or their employees to provide a system of compensation benefits or insurance in lieu of the compensation and insurance provided by this…