One of the Republican plans to bring jobs back to the state includes changes in the worker's disability laws. The bill dealing with this issue, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Wilson, R-Neosho, requires that workers can collect disability payments only if the worker can prove that the job was the dominant factor in causing the injury. It would also stop payments to workers who had a pre-existing condition affecting the work injury and whose injury was not caused by an accident.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Kevin Wilson, R- Neosho, said that 90,000 Missouri jobs have disappeared in the last two years. He cited high workers' compensation costs as a significant factor.
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