Chapter 287 - Workers' Compensation Law

Section 287.010 - Citation of law
Section 287.020 - Definitions - intent to abrogate earlier case law
Section 287.021 - Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to be covered by workers' compensation - average earnings defined
Section 287.030 - Employer defined
Section 287.035 - Partners, sole proprietors may elect to receive benefits for themselves - employees, effect - insurer's liability - intent of law - withdrawal of employee from coverage, procedure
Section 287.037 - Member of limited liability company to receive coverage, rejection of coverage, rescission of rejection - S corporation, certain shareholders may elect or reject coverage
Section 287.040 - Liability of employer - contractors, subcontractors
Section 287.041 - For-hire motor carrier not an employer of a lessor - definition
Section 287.043 - Abrogation of case law regarding definition of owner
Section 287.060 - Employers and employees affected by this act
Section 287.061 - Occupational or business license for construction contractors, city or county - duty to require proof of workers' compensation coverage, when, effect
Section 287.063 - Occupational diseases, presumption of exposure - last employer liable - statute of limitations, starts running, when
Section 287.067 - Occupational disease defined - repetitive motion, loss of hearing, radiation injury, communicable disease, others - posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Section 287.070 - Occupational diseases directly related to cleanup of an illegal drug manufacturing lab
Section 287.090 - Exempt employers and occupations - election to accept - withdrawal - notification required of insurance companies
Section 287.100 - Legislative intent relative to other laws expressed
Section 287.110 - Scope of chapter as to injuries and diseases covered
Section 287.120 - Liability of employer set out - compensation increased or reduced, when - use of alcohol or controlled substances or voluntary recreational activities, injury from - effect on compensation - mental injuries, requirements, firefighter stress not affected
Section 287.123 - Insurers to establish safety engineering and management services program - requirements - division to maintain registry
Section 287.124 - Department of labor and industrial relations, certification of employer safety programs, when
Section 287.126 - Toll-free telephone number for workers' compensation information, division to establish
Section 287.127 - Notice, employer to post, contents - division to develop, distribute, and publish notice, when - penalty
Section 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
Section 287.129 - False billing practices of health care provider, defined, effect - department of commerce and insurance, powers - penalty
Section 287.130 - Employer's liability joint and several - contribution allowable
Section 287.135 - Managed care services, department to establish program to certify organizations, procedures - effect on fees and services
Section 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 workers' compensation claim, contents, effect - use of employee leave time
Section 287.141 - Physical rehabilitation, defined, division of workers' compensation to administer - procedure
Section 287.143 - Vocational rehabilitation services, not mandatory - testing and assessment
Section 287.144 - Definitions
Section 287.145 - Rehabilitation practitioners, providers, certification of, how
Section 287.146 - Employee authorized to receive vocational rehabilitation, when - duties of director
Section 287.148 - Loss of suitable, gainful employment, how determined - severe injury, defined - plan, duration, costs allowed
Section 287.149 - Benefits to be paid, when - reduction of benefits, when
Section 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 - third party liability, subrogation, effect on
Section 287.160 - Waiting period - compensation, how paid - interest, how computed - not credit to employer for wages or benefits paid, exception
Section 287.170 - Temporary total disability, amount to be paid - method of payment - disqualification, when - post injury misconduct defined - benefits not payable, when
Section 287.180 - Temporary partial disability, amount to be paid - method of payment
Section 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
Section 287.195 - Claims for hernia, proof required
Section 287.197 - Occupational deafness - tests, claims, awards, liability of employer, effect of hearing aid
Section 287.200 - Permanent total disability, amount to be paid - suspension of payments, when - toxic exposure, treatment of claims
Section 287.203 - Termination of compensation by employer, employee right to hearing - assessment of costs
Section 287.210 - Physical examination of employee - exchange of medical records - admissibility of physician's, coroner's records - autopsy may be ordered
Section 287.215 - Injured employee to be furnished copy of his statement, otherwise inadmissible as evidence - statement, what is not to be included
Section 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 of fund, exceptions
Section 287.223 - Missouri mesothelioma risk management fund created - definitions - issuance of payments, when - board of trustees, appointment, meetings, duties
Section 287.230 - Payment of compensation at death of employee - exceptions - abrogation of case law
Section 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
Section 287.241 - Death benefits, inconsistent with section 287.240, when
Section 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
Section 287.245 - Volunteer firefighters, grants for workers' compensation insurance premiums - or critical illness benefits pool
Section 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
Section 287.252 - Cafeteria plan payroll deductions, not to reduce computation of employee compensation
Section 287.253 - Monetary bonus, effect on benefits
Section 287.260 - Compensation to have priority - not assignable - exceptions
Section 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
Section 287.270 - Benefits from other sources no bar to compensation, exception, professional athletes
Section 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
Section 287.282 - Employee leasing arrangements, coverage required
Section 287.290 - Employee not to pay cost of insurance
Section 287.300 - Employer's liability primary or secondary - notice and service, when sufficient
Section 287.310 - Policies to be approved by department - deductible plans authorized, requirements
Section 287.335 - Determinations review board, created, purpose - code classifications, classification system, review of, duties
Section 287.340 - Insurance companies must keep reserve
Section 287.350 - Insurance companies to make report
Section 287.360 - Director may suspend or revoke permits and ask for a receiver
Section 287.370 - Compensation in lieu of insurance, how provided
Section 287.380 - Employer or insurer to make report to division, requirements - information not to be disclosed - failure to report, penalty
Section 287.390 - Compromise settlements, how made - validity, effect, settlement with minor dependents - employee entitled to one hundred percent of offer, when - maximum medical improvement, rating from second physician, when
Section 287.400 - Accident - duty of division - employer
Section 287.410 - Powers and functions of the division of workers' compensation
Section 287.420 - Written notice of injury to be given to employer - exceptions
Section 287.430 - Limitation as to action, exception
Section 287.440 - Limitation begins to run, when
Section 287.450 - Failure to agree on compensation - division to hold hearings
Section 287.460 - Division hearings, findings sent to parties and insurer - mediation services, division to establish procedures, requirements
Section 287.470 - Commission may review and change award
Section 287.480 - Application for review, time limit - when deemed filed - bond required, when
Section 287.490 - Final award conclusive unless an appeal is taken - grounds for setting aside - disputes governed by this section, claims arising before August 13, 1980
Section 287.495 - Final award conclusive unless an appeal is taken - grounds for setting aside - disputes governed by this section, claims arising on or after August 13, 1980
Section 287.500 - Circuit court may act upon memorandum - procedure
Section 287.510 - Temporary or partial awards may be made
Section 287.520 - Notice - manner of serving
Section 287.530 - Commission or division may commute compensation, when and how
Section 287.540 - Compensation commuted - funds, how paid out
Section 287.550 - Proceedings before commission to be informal and summary
Section 287.560 - Division or commission may administer oaths, issue process, take depositions - depositions may be taken by electronic means - costs, how paid
Section 287.570 - Contempt - penalty
Section 287.580 - Death, pending proceedings - action shall not abate
Section 287.590 - Division may be sued - official seal
Section 287.600 - Oath of office
Section 287.610 - Additional administrative law judges, appointment and qualification, limit on number - annual evaluations - review committee, retention vote - jurisdiction, powers - continuing training required - performance audits required - rules
Section 287.615 - Employees of division - compensation - selection
Section 287.620 - Attorney general legal adviser
Section 287.630 - Forms, other material furnished by commission and division
Section 287.640 - Necessary offices to be provided, where - salaries - traveling expenses, how paid - hearings, where held
Section 287.642 - Public information programs, division to establish
Section 287.650 - Division to make rules and regulations - power to destroy reports, when - rules
Section 287.655 - Dismissal of claims, when, how, effect
Section 287.660 - Fees
Section 287.670 - No fees for services of public officers
Section 287.680 - Annual report to governor
Section 287.690 - [Effective until 1/1/2025] Premium tax on insurance carriers, purpose, rate, how determined - use of funds for employers mutual insurance company, purpose
Section 287.690 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Premium tax on insurance carriers, purpose, rate, how determined
Section 287.700 - Returns delinquent - duty of director
Section 287.710 - Tax returns - payments - use of proceeds - funds and interest not to lapse
Section 287.713 - Director, report of expenditures
Section 287.715 - Annual surcharge required for second injury fund, amount, how computed, collection - violation, penalty - supplemental surcharge, amount, expiration date
Section 287.716 - Surcharge on deductible plan policyholders, when, calculation of - notification of policyholders
Section 287.717 - Surcharge collection, procedure - failure to pay, interest assessed, when
Section 287.720 - Companies withdrawing from state liable for taxes imposed - department of revenue empowered to collect
Section 287.730 - Employer carrying own risk must pay tax
Section 287.740 - Compliance with provisions obligatory - penalty for violation
Section 287.745 - Delinquent taxes, interest, rate - overpayment of taxes, credit
Section 287.750 - Sufficiency of notice
Section 287.760 - Insurance carriers exempt from other tax, when
Section 287.780 - Discrimination because of exercising compensation rights prohibited - civil action for damages - motivating factor defined
Section 287.790 - Penalty not specifically provided - misdemeanor
Section 287.800 - Law to be strictly construed
Section 287.801 - Review of claims, by whom
Section 287.804 - Waiver of compensation by employee, procedure
Section 287.808 - Burden of proof
Section 287.810 - Change of administrative law judge, procedure, limitations
Section 287.811 - Discovery in workers' compensation cases, sections not to effect
RETIREMENT SYSTEM, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES AND LEGAL ADVISORS (§§ 287.812 — 287.856)
MISSOURI PRIVATE SECTOR INDIVIDUAL SELF-INSURERS GUARANTY CORPORATION (§§ 287.860 — 287.886)
DUTIES OF INSURERS (§§ 287.892 — 287.896)
EMPLOYERS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY (§§ 287.900 — 287.922)
RATE REGULATION (§§ 287.930 — 287.975)