The Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday ducked a chance to decide whether a worker had a "pending" claim at the time of his death that would allow his widow to receive successor benefit payments under the "Schoemehl doctrine."
The doctrine was a short-lived rule set forth by the Missouri Supreme Court in a 2007 case called Schoemehl v. Treasurer, which said the plain language of the Workers' Compensation Act provided that a permanently and totally disabled worker's weekly benefits would be passed on to the worker's dependents upo...
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