Felling v. Wire Rope Corp. of America

LOWENSTEIN, Chief Judge.

Appellants in this case plead several causes of action they claim lay outside the exclusivity provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act as found in § 287.120.2 RSMo., (Cum.Supp.1992). The main issue involves the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission’s (Commission) exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether the appellant’s decedent died as a result of an accident or an intentional act of the employer, Wire Rope Corporation of America, Inc. (Wire Rope). If Leo N. Felling died as a result of an accident as defined by the Workers’ Compensation Act, then his…