Missouri § 287.290 - Employee not to pay cost of insurance.
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§ 287.290. Employee not to pay cost of insurance.
No part of the cost of such insurance shall be assessed against, collected from or paid by any employee.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3714)
Prior revision: 1929 § 3324
(1963) Where city failed to maintain minimum security required for self-insurer claimant had right to common law action for damages or to pursue remedy for compensation and city would not be permitted to claim that claimant, whose common law action had been dismissed on city's representation that it was a self-insurer, by thereafter filing claim for compensation had elected to pursue that remedy in absence of knowledge of true facts concerning city's status. Fisher v. City of Independence (Mo.), 370 S.W.2d 310.
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