As new cases of COVID-19 hopefully begin to level off (or at least increase more slowly) in Missouri, the legal battles in the Missouri workers' compensation system are beginning to heat up. As reported by The Kansas City Business Journal, attorneys for the family of a nurse who died of COVID-19 are saying that her employer's insurer is fighting her [...]

Two recent stories recently posted on the STLToday website show that the implications of actions taken and not taken in regard to the COVID19 virus are beginning to have ripple effects in the courthouses around the country, as well as the schools, bars and restaurants and other businesses. During an  August 11 meeting of the Missouri House Special [...]

As reported by KCUR89.3 in Kansas City, a Kansas City nurse has died of the Corona Virus after concerns were raised about the lack of PPE for health care workers. For weeks, hospital workers in the Kansas City area had been warning that the lack of adequate personal protective equipment was putting them at risk when treating COVID-19 patients. This week, [...]

B. Michael Korte of The Korte Law Firm LLC has agreed to lecture at the annual Workers' Compensation Institute of The Missouri Bar seminar on June 12, 2020, in St. Louis MO As he did in 2018, Mr. Korte will once again present a review of the previous year's case law with Michael F. Banahan of Evans and Dixon, LLC, and an assistant attorney general on [...]