[DOWNLOAD] "Missouri's Section 287.865.5 Proof of Claim Filing Requirement: Are Injured Employees Getting a Fair Shake?" by Missouri Law Review * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Missouri's Section 287.865.5 Proof of Claim Filing Requirement: Are Injured Employees Getting a Fair Shake?
- Author : Missouri Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 373 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION Most employers in Missouri must provide workers' compensation coverage for their employees. (2) Many opt to fulfill this requirement by taking out commercial insurance policies. (3) Certain qualified employers, however, may elect to self-insure their workers' compensation obligations. (4) To protect injured workers in the event that a self-insured employer becomes insolvent, the state has a guaranty fund in place to cover the insolvent company's workers' compensation liabilities. (5) This protection, however, is subject to a prerequisite: to be eligible for benefit payments from the guaranty fund, the injured worker must file "a timely claim ... according to [the] procedures set forth by a court of competent jurisdiction over the ... bankruptcy proceedings of the insolvent [employer]." (6)