Yerington v. La-Z-Boy, Inc.

KENNETH W. SHRUM, Judge.

The dispositive question here is whether a “Stipulation For Compromise Settlement,” signed by a workers’ compensation claimant (“Plaintiff’) and his employer (“La-Z-Boy”), clearly and unambiguously included and settled Plaintiffs section 287.780 civil suit against La-Z-Boy for retaliatory discharge. 1 The trial court found the stipulation for compromise settlement to be unambiguous; consequently, it refused to consider Plaintiff’s parol evidence that the parties never intended the compromise settlement to have that effect and dismissed Plaintiffs civil suit against…