Stacey L. Deane v. Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Company

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

Stacey Deane (“Appellant”) appeals from the Circuit Court of Boone County’s dismissal of his petition against Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Company (“Insurer”) in which Appellant asserted tort claims against Insurer for failing to comply with the terms of a worker’s compensation award that had previously been entered as a judgment in Cole County. For the following reasons, the judgment is affirmed.

On October 7, 2002, while working construction for his employer, Elder Custom Homes, Appellant fell from a scaffold. The spinal injury he sustained caused permanent,…