An employer owes attorney’s fees as a sanction for an unreasonable defense when it sent claimant a letter denying medical treatment without any explanation and never bothered to contact claimant before denying the claim, according to a recent Commission decision, Nouraie v Mo Baptist Hospital ...

Where a trial court expressly stated that it was sanctioning the employer by taking the employer’s contempt—the violation of a mediation order—into account when making the court’s various findings of fact and conclusions of law, instead of imposing an independent fine for such...