If a worker (or their family) and their employer can't agree on workers' compensation payments, either side can ask for a formal hearing. They have to wait 14 days after the accident report is filed before asking for a hearing, unless it's a hardship case. Once the request is received, a hearing date gets set as soon as possible and both sides are told when and where it will be.
287.450. Failure to agree on — to hold s. — If the employer and employee or his do not agree in regard to compensation payable under this chapter, either may make in a manner determined by the division for a hearing in regard to the matters at and for a ruling thereon, except that no application for a hearing shall be considered until fourteen days after the receipt by the division of the report of accident required under section 287.380. The fourteen-day waiting period is not applicable to applications for hardship hearings. After the application has been received, the division shall set a date for a hearing, which shall be held as soon as , and shall notify the of the time and place of the hearing.
(RSMo 1939 § 3728, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 447, A.L. 1965 p. 397, A.L. 1992 H.B. 975, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1540)
Prior revision: 1929 § 3338
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