Legal Opinion
Wilson v. C.C. Southern, Inc.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided May 18, 2004No. WD 62805PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL M. SPINDEN, Judge.
The central issue in this workers’ compensation case is who was John Wilson’s employer. Wilson was driving a tractor leased by C.C. Southern, Inc., from Robert Kerr pulling a C.C. Southern trailer when the rig crashed and killed him. Although C.C. Southern contracted with Kerr for Wilson’s services as a driver, the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission decided that C.C. Southern was Wilson’s “special employer” and hable exclusively for paying workers’ compensation benefits to his survivors.
Wilson died on March 11,1998, when the tractor-trailer rig he was driving…
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