Law to be strictly construed
This law is about how Missouri workers' compensation rules must be read and applied. Judges and other officials who handle workers' comp cases must read the rules strictly — meaning they stick closely to exactly what the words say, no more and no less. When looking at evidence, those same officials must be fair and not lean toward either side.
287.800. Law to be . — 1. law judges, associate administrative law judges, legal advisors, the , the , and any reviewing courts shall the of this chapter strictly.
2. Administrative law judges, associate administrative law judges, legal advisors, the labor and industrial relations commission, and the division of workers' compensation shall weigh the evidence without giving the of the doubt to any when weighing evidence and resolving factual conflicts.
(RSMo 1939 § 3764, A.L. 1965 p. 397, A.L. 2005 S.B. 1 & 130)
Prior revision: 1929 § 3374
(1964) Where 's evidence showed the injury to have resulted from one or the other of two causes, for one of which, and not the other, employer and were , claimant did not meet the as to causal connection, and argument under § 287.800 that all doubts must be resolved in favor of employee did not extend to of lacking some essential element required by law. Welker v. MFA Central Co-op. (A.), 380 S.W.2d 481.
(1965) Statutory that the "shall be with a view to the public welfare" neither impinges upon the function and right of the , as of facts, to draw from the evidence such inferences as may be fairly and reasonably permissible, nor authorizes allowance of a claim lacking an essential element required by law. Johnson v. Simpson Oil Co. (A.), 394 S.W.2d 91.
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