Benefits from other sources no bar to compensation, exception, professional athletes
If a hurt worker has their own savings, insurance, or gets help from somewhere other than their employer, that money does not reduce the workers' comp benefits they are owed. There is one exception: employers of professional athletes (like a sports team) get to subtract any wages, medical bills, or other benefits they already paid the athlete after the injury from what they owe under workers' comp.
287.270. Benefits from other sources no to , , professional athletes. — No savings or insurance of the injured employee, nor any benefits derived from any other source than the employer or the employer's for under this chapter, shall be considered in determining the compensation due hereunder; except as provided in 3* of section 287.170, and employers of professional athletes under contract shall be entitled to full for wages or benefits paid to the employee after the injury including medical, surgical or hospital benefits paid to or for the employee or his on account of the injury, , or death, the of the contract.
(RSMo 1939 § 3712, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1106, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1237, et al.)
Prior revision: 1929 § 3322
*Subsection 3 of section 283.170 was by S.B. 1 & 130, 2005. This language no longer exists.
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