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MO Rev Stat § 287.510 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.510 - Temporary or partial awards may be made.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   287.510. Temporary or partial awards may be made. — In any case a temporary or partial award of compensation may be made, and the same may be modified from time to time to meet the needs of the case, and the same may be kept open until a final award can be made, and if the same be not complied with, the amount equal to the value of compensation ordered and unpaid may be doubled in the final award, if the final award shall be in accordance with the temporary or partial award. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3734, A.L. 2005 S.B. 1 & 130)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3344  (1953) Contention that temporary award could be doubled on final award only where defense is found frivolous or vexatious denied. Cebak v. John Nooter Boiler Works (A.), 258 S.W.2d 262. (1953) The making of a temporary award was not res adjudicata, after the time for review thereof had expired, as to the adjudication of the question of medical expenses even though medical treatment began before referee's hearing and continued thereafter. Finn v. Harrison (A.), 255 S.W.2d 93. (1953) This section vests discretion in the commission to determine whether an award should be doubled, and its determination therein is not to be disturbed unless commission acted arbitrarily or abused discretion. Powers v. Universal Atlas Cement Co. (A.), 261 S.W.2d 512. (1975) Double penalty for failure to comply with award not a proper matter for original consideration in the court of appeals. Todd v. Goostree (A.), 528 S.W.2d 470.
MO Rev Stat § 287.520 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.520 - Notice — manner of serving.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012   287.520. Notice — manner of serving. — 1. Any notice required under this chapter shall be deemed to have been properly given and served when sent by registered or certified mail properly stamped and addressed to the person or entity to whom given, at the last known address in time to reach the person or entity in due time to act thereon, or to counsel for that person or entity in like manner. Notice may also be given and served in like manner as summons in civil actions.  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, the division may serve or send any notices required under this chapter by electronic means, except that any notices required to be sent to an employee not represented by counsel shall be sent by registered or certified mail to the last known address of the employee unless the employee consents to receive notices by electronic means. In the event the employee is represented by counsel and counsel is sent proper notice under this chapter, notice to the employee may be sent by regular mail. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3735, A.L. 1965 p. 397, A.L. 1987 H.B. 564, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1540)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3345  (1975) "Last known address" is that place where mail would be most likely to reach a person, that would be their residence. Failure of commission to send notice of award to residence prevented loss of jurisdiction because of 30-day rule in section 287.490. Cagle v. Regal Plastics Company (A.), 522 S.W.2d 7.
MO Rev Stat § 287.530 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.530 - Commission or division may commute compensation, when and how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   287.530. Commission or division may commute compensation, when and how. — 1. The compensation provided in this chapter may be commuted by the division or the commission and redeemed by the payment in whole or in part, by the employer, of a lump sum which shall be fixed by the division or the commission, which sum shall be equal to the commutable value of the future installments which may be due under this chapter, taking account of life contingencies, the payment to be commuted at its present value upon application of either party, with due notice to the other, if it appears that the commutation will be for the best interests of the employee or the dependents of the deceased employee, or that it will avoid undue expense or undue hardship to either party, or that the employee or dependent has removed or is about to remove from the United States or that the employer has sold or otherwise disposed of the greater part of his business or assets.  2. In determining whether the commutation asked for will be for the best interest of the employee or the dependents of the deceased employee, or so that it will avoid undue expense or undue hardship to either party, the division or the commission will constantly bear in mind that it is the intention of this chapter that the compensation payments are in lieu of wages and are to be received by the injured employee or his dependents in the same manner in which wages are ordinarily paid. Therefore, commutation is a departure from the normal method of payment and is to be allowed only when it clearly appears that some unusual circumstances warrant such a departure. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3736, A.L. 1965 p. 397, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1237, et al.)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3346  (1971) Industrial Commission was without authority to delegate duty of determining amount of lump sum settlement and expressing it in terms of a money award as this was judicial function of the commission. American Oil Co. v. Pierce (A.), 472 S.W.2d 458.
MO Rev Stat § 287.540 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.540 - Compensation commuted — funds, how paid out.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   287.540. Compensation commuted — funds, how paid out. — On notice to the other parties the commission or court may permit the employer to be discharged from further liability under any agreement, award or judgment for compensation by furnishing to the person entitled thereto an annuity or other obligation, approved by the commission or court, by which payment is assumed by some responsible person, or by depositing the commutable value thereof with the commission to be disbursed to the persons entitled thereto in such manner as the commission shall determine. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3737)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3347
MO Rev Stat § 287.550 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.550 - Proceedings before commission to be informal and summary.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   287.550. Proceedings before commission to be informal and summary. — All proceedings before the commission or any commissioner shall be simple, informal, and summary, and without regard to the technical rules of evidence, and in accordance with section 287.800. All such proceedings shall be according to such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the commission. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3739, A.L. 2005 S.B. 1 & 130)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3349  (1959) Where application for appeal from the referee specified the various findings and contended that they were unsupported by evidence, the application for appeal to the commission was sufficient notwithstanding the sole question related to the extent and nature of the disability of the employee. Collins v. Eichler Heating Co. (A.), 319 S.W.2d 666.
MO Rev Stat § 287.560 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.560 - Division or commission may administer oaths, issue process, take depositions — depositions may be taken by electronic means — costs, how paid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   287.560. Division or commission may administer oaths, issue process, take depositions — depositions may be taken by electronic means — costs, how paid. — The division, any administrative law judge thereof or the commission, shall have power to issue process, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, examine books and papers, and require the production thereof, and to cause the deposition of any witness to be taken and the costs thereof paid as other costs under this chapter. Any party shall be entitled to process to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers, and at his own cost to take and use depositions in like manner as in civil cases in the circuit court, except that depositions may be recorded by electronic means. The party electing to record a deposition by electronic means shall be responsible for the preparation and proper certification of the transcript and for maintaining a copy of the tape or other medium on which the deposition was recorded for the use of the division or any party upon request. Copies of the transcript shall be provided to all parties at a cost approved by the division. Subpoena shall extend to all parts of the state, and may be served as in civil actions in the circuit court, but the costs of the service shall be as in other civil actions. Each witness shall receive the fees and mileage prescribed by law in civil cases, but the same shall not be allowed as costs to the party in whose behalf the witness was summoned unless the persons before whom the hearing is had shall certify that the testimony of the witness was necessary. All costs under this section shall be approved by the division and paid out of the state treasury from the fund for the support of the Missouri division of workers' compensation; provided, however, that if the division or the commission determines that any proceedings have been brought, prosecuted or defended without reasonable ground, it may assess the whole cost of the proceedings upon the party who so brought, prosecuted or defended them. The division or the commission may permit a claimant to prosecute a claim as a poor person as provided by law in civil cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3740, A.L. 1965 p. 397, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1396, A.L. 1993 S.B. 251)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3350
MO Rev Stat § 287.570 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.570 - Contempt — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   287.570. Contempt — penalty. — If any person subpoenaed to appear at any hearing or proceeding, fails to obey the command of such subpoena without reasonable cause, or if any person at attendance at any hearing or proceeding shall without reasonable cause, refuse to be sworn, or to be examined, or to answer a question, or to produce a book or paper or to subscribe or swear to his deposition, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and may be prosecuted therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction, and in case of a continuing violation, each day's continuance thereof shall be, and deemed to be, a separate and distinct offense. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3741)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3351  (1959) Information charging refusal of witness to answer question held adequate, but where motion to dismiss was also based on witness' right to refuse on ground of self-incrimination, the information was properly dismissed. State v. Topel (A.), 322 S.W.2d 160.
MO Rev Stat § 287.580 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.580 - Death, pending proceedings — action shall not abate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   287.580. Death, pending proceedings — action shall not abate. — If any party shall die pending any proceedings under this chapter, the same shall not abate, but on notice to the parties may be revived and proceed in favor of the successor to the rights or against the personal representative of the party liable, in like manner as in civil actions. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3742)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3352
MO Rev Stat § 287.590 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.590 - Division may be sued — official seal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1980   287.590. Division may be sued — official seal. — The division may sue and be sued in its official name. The division shall have an official seal bearing the inscription: "The Division of Workers' Compensation of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations". The official seal of the commission or division shall be affixed to all writs and authentication of copies of records, papers on file, and to such other instruments as the commission or division shall direct. Copies of the records and proceedings of the commission or division, and of all papers on file in its office, certified under the seal, shall be evidence in all courts of the state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3746, A.L. 1945 p. 1996, A.L. 1965 p. 397, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1396)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3356  CROSS REFERENCES:  Director of division of workers' compensation, 286.120  Division of workers' compensation in state department of labor and industrial relations created, 286.110
MO Rev Stat § 287.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.600 - Oath of office.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   287.600. Oath of office. — Each person appointed to office of employment by the division shall, before entering upon his duties, take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States, and of this state, and to faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of such office or employment. Each person appointed to office by the division shall give his whole time to his duties, nor shall he serve on any committee of any political party. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3745, A.L. 1945 p. 1996, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 445)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3355
MO Rev Stat § 287.615 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.615 - Employees of division — compensation — selection.

Effective - 01 Jan 2006   *287.615. Employees of division — compensation — selection. — 1. The division may appoint or employ such persons as may be necessary to the proper administration of this chapter. All salaries to clerical employees shall be fixed by the division and approved by the labor and industrial relations commission. Beginning January 1, 2006, the annual salary of each administrative law judge, administrative law judge in charge, and chief legal counsel shall be as follows:  (1) For any chief legal counsel located at the division office in Jefferson City, Missouri, compensation at two thousand dollars above eighty percent of the rate at which an associate circuit judge is compensated;  (2) For each administrative law judge, compensation at ninety percent of the rate at which an associate division circuit judge is compensated;  (3) For each administrative law judge in charge, compensation at the same rate as an administrative law judge plus five thousand dollars.  2. The salary of the director of the division of workers' compensation shall be set by the director of the department of labor and industrial relations, but shall not be less than the salary plus two thousand dollars of an administrative law judge in charge. The appointees in each classification shall be selected as nearly as practicable in equal numbers from each of the two political parties casting the highest and the next highest number of votes for governor in the last preceding state election. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3747, A.L. 1945 p. 1996, A.L. 1951 p. 611, A.L. 1955 p. 599, A.L. 1957 p. 530, A.L. 1959 S.B. 209, H.B. 93 § 287.610, A.L. 1961 p. 428, A.L. 1963 p. 411, A.L. 1965 p. 419, A.L. 1967 p. 392, A.L. 1971 S.B. 190, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1260, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1396, A.L. 1981 H.B. 324, A.L. 1984 S.B. 528, A.L. 1987 H.B. 564, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1237, et al., A.L. 2005 S.B. 1 & 130)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3357  Effective 1-01-06  *Revisor's note: Salary adjustment index is printed, as required by § 105.005, in Appendix E.
MO Rev Stat § 287.620 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.620 - Attorney general legal adviser.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   287.620. Attorney general legal adviser. — It shall be the duty of the attorney general to furnish the division or the commission with such legal services as may be required, and to appear on behalf of the division or the commission in all actions or proceedings to which they may be a party. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3748, A.L. 1965 p. 397)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3358
MO Rev Stat § 287.630 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.630 - Forms, other material furnished by commission and division.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   287.630. Forms, other material furnished by commission and division. — The division and the commission shall prepare and furnish free of charge blank forms of all notices, claims, reports, proofs, and other blank forms and literature which they may deem proper and requisite to the efficient administration of this chapter. They may also authorize the publication and distribution of the blanks by employers and other persons. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3749, A.L. 1965 p. 397)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3359
MO Rev Stat § 287.640 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.640 - Necessary offices to be provided, where — salaries — traveling expenses, how paid — hearings, where held.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   287.640. Necessary offices to be provided, where — salaries — traveling expenses, how paid — hearings, where held. — 1. The division of workers' compensation shall be provided with offices at the state capital, and St. Louis, St. Joseph, Cape Girardeau, Joplin, Springfield and Kansas City, and in such other places, not to exceed two, as the division deems necessary for the efficient disposition of the business of the division, in which offices its records shall be kept, but its permanent records shall be kept in Jefferson City. The division shall also be provided with the necessary office furniture, books, stationery and other supplies. The division and each of its appointees and employees shall have reimbursed to them their actual traveling expenses and disbursements in the discharge of their duties while away from their regular offices and places of residence, but the same shall not be paid until verified by the affidavit of the person who incurred them and approved by the division. All salaries, expenses and costs under this chapter shall be paid monthly out of the state treasury from the fund for the support of the division of workers' compensation of the department of labor and industrial relations.  2. Unless the parties otherwise agree, all original hearings shall be held in the county, or in a city not part of any county, where the accident occurred, or in any county, or such city, adjacent thereto, or if the accident occurred outside of the state, then the hearing shall be held in the county or city where the contract of employment was made, or the county where employment of the employee was principally localized. If venue cannot otherwise be established by this subsection, then the division shall determine the venue of the hearing. The division shall determine the location of the hearing within the county, or city not within a county, of venue.  3. Hearings before the labor and industrial relations commission on review may be held at the place the commission determines, having due regard for the convenience of the parties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3750, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 449, A.L. 1955 p. 594, A.L. 1957 p. 518, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1396, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1237, et al.)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3360
MO Rev Stat § 287.642 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.642 - Public information programs, division to establish.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   287.642. Public information programs, division to establish. — The division of workers' compensation shall create in each of its area offices a public information program to assist all parties involved with an injury or claim under this chapter. ­­-------- (L. 1992 H.B. 975 § 1, A.L. 2005 S.B. 1 & 130)
MO Rev Stat § 287.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.650 - Division to make rules and regulations — power to destroy reports, when — rules.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012   287.650. Division to make rules and regulations — power to destroy reports, when — rules. — 1. The division of workers' compensation shall have such powers as may be necessary to carry out all the provisions of this chapter including the use of electronic processes, and it may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for any such purpose, subject to the approval of the labor and industrial relations commission of Missouri. The division shall have power to strike pleadings and enter awards against any party or parties who fail or refuse to comply with its lawful orders.  2. (1) The division shall have the power upon the expiration of five years after their receipt to destroy reports of injuries on which no compensation (exclusive of medical costs) was due or paid, together with the papers attendant to the filing of such reports, and also to destroy records in compensable cases after the expiration of ten years from the date of the termination of compensation.  (2) Records in cases that are submitted for hearing in the division shall include all documentary exhibits admitted as evidence at the hearing. Records in all other cases shall include all documents required to be filed with the division by this chapter or by rule of the division, medical reports or records which are relied upon by the administrative law judge or legal advisor in approving the compromise lump sum settlement, and copies of the compromise lump sum settlement. These records shall be kept and stored by the division for a minimum of ten years and shall include the originals or duplicate originals stored by electronic or other means approved by the division.  3. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3751, A.L. 1949 p. 627, A.L. 1961 p. 430, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1396, A.L. 1993 S.B. 251, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1237, et al., A.L. 2012 H.B. 1540)  Prior revision: 1929 § 3361  CROSS REFERENCE:  Rules to be filed with secretary of state, when effective, Chap. 536  (1978) Held that a referee (now administrative law judge) may dismiss a workmen's compensation claim for want of prosecution. Cade v. Bendix Corporation (A.), 564 S.W.2d 608.
MO Rev Stat § 287.655 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law|Section 287.655 - Dismissal of claims, when, how, effect.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012   287.655. Dismissal of claims, when, how, effect. — Any claim before the division may be dismissed for failure to prosecute in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commission. Such notice shall be made in a manner determined by the division, except that for the employee such notice shall be by certified or registered mail unless the employee to whom notice is directed is represented by counsel and counsel is also given such notice. To dismiss a claim the administrative law judge shall enter an order of dismissal which shall be deemed an award and subject to review and appeal in the same manner as provided for other awards in this chapter. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1260 § 2, A.L. 1987 H.B. 564, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1540)