Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 287

Workers' Compensation Law

←287.210

Section 287.215.1

287.220→

August 28, 2015

Injured employee to be furnished copy of his statement, otherwise inadmissible as evidence--statement, what is not to be included.

287.215. No statement in writing made or given by an injured employee,

whether taken and transcribed by a stenographer, signed or unsigned by the

injured employee, or any statement which is mechanically or electronically

recorded, or taken in writing by another person, or otherwise preserved,

shall be admissible in evidence, used or referred to in any manner at any

hearing or action to recover benefits under this law unless a copy thereof is

given or furnished the employee, or his dependents in case of death, or their

attorney, within thirty days after written request for it by the injured

employee, his dependents in case of death, or by their attorney. The request

shall be directed to the employer or its insurer by certified mail. The term

"statement" as used in this section shall not include a videotape, motion

picture, or visual reproduction of an image of an employee.



(L. 1959 S.B. 167, A.L. 1965 p. 397, A.L. 1973 H.B. 215, A.L. 2005

S.B. 1 & 130)





1991



1991



287.215. No statement in writing made or given by an injured

employee, whether taken and transcribed by a stenographer, signed

or unsigned by the injured employee, or any statement which is

mechanically or electronically recorded, or taken in writing by

another person, or otherwise preserved, shall be admissible in

evidence, used or referred to in any manner at any hearing or

action to recover benefits under this law unless a copy thereof

is given or furnished the employee, or his dependents in case of

death, or their attorney, within fifteen days after written

request for it by the injured employee, his dependents in case of

death, or by their attorney. The request shall be directed to

the employer or its insurer by certified mail.



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