Lawsuit challenges workers' comp law

Thursday, December 1, 2005

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- More than 70 labor groups filed suit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of Missouri's new workers' compensation law, claiming it reduces the rights of employees so greatly that it denies them justice for their injuries.

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