As reported by MissouriNet, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens signed Senate Bill 66 (HCS SS SCS SB 66) into effect on July 5, amending The Workers' Compensation Law of Missouri in various ways designed to attract more businesses to Missouri. The legislation worked its way through the Missouri legislature rather quietly and under the radar last spring, as [...]

B. Michael Korte, of The Korte Law Firm, LLC, recently announced that he had been successful in obtaining over $600,000.00 in benefits for an injured worker in a Missouri workers’ compensation claim. The worker, an assistant manager at a “big box”-type store in Missouri’s “Bootheel” region, injured his back while carrying a suitcase full of [...]

B. Michael Korte has been invited to return to lecture again at the upcoming workers' compensation seminar of Kids' Chance of Missouri, on May 20 at the St. Louis University School of Law.   Kids' Chance of Missouri is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, that provides post-high school scholarships to children of Missouri workers killed or [...]

B. Michael Korte of The Korte Law Firm, LLC recently obtained over $460,000 in benefits for a FarrisKorte client for a workers' comp injury claim. The victim injured his neck working in a factory in southeast Missouri in 2009. After disk surgery, the worker returned to his job for awhile, until it was obvious that the surgery had failed. The worker [...]

B.Michael Korte, of The Korte Law Firm, LLC, was again interviewed by WorkCompCentral.com,a nationwide workers' comp website, in regard to the recent decision of the Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals in the case of Treasurer v. Couch. In Couch, the Court ruled that an attempt to re-file a claim against the Missouri second injury fund came [...]

B. Michael Korte of The Korte Law Firm, LLC has once again been invited by The Missouri Bar Association to lecture at its annual Stepping Up and Stepping Out: The New Lawyer Experience On November 13, 2015, in St. Louis, MO. Korte will be lecturing on the topic "Fundamentals of Handling a Workers' Compensation Case." "I am always honored and flattered [...]