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Mo. Fund For Injured Workers Stops Paying Claims

Fifty-five permanently disabled people have not received payments from a Missouri fund for workplace injuries because of its ongoing financial troubles.

By Associated Press | Updated on June 07, 2011

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fifty-five permanently disabled people have not received payments from a Missouri fund for workplace injuries because of its ongoing financial troubles.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday that financial difficulties plaguing the Second Injury Fund prompted the attorney general’s office to begin withholding new permanent total disability awards in March. Attorney General Chris Koster estimates that if all the liabilities against the state fund were paid, the fund would be $20 million in debt by the end of the year. Plus, there are 28,000 pending claims against the fund with about 700 new ones filed each month.

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