Mendenhall v. Property & Casualty Insurance Co. of Hartford

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

I respectfully dissent. The dispositive issue in this case is whether a third party can “furnish” an employee to an employer by merely recommending or referring him to the employer. In Gavan v. Bituminous Cas. Corp., 242 S.W.3d 718 (Mo. banc 2008), this Court addressed the meaning of “furnish” in the same “temporary worker” exception at issue in this case and held that “ ‘furnished to,’ in context and in its plain and ordinary meaning, is not ambiguous and necessarily implies that a third party has been involved in providing or supplying the worker to the insured.”…