Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Labor and Industrial Relations Commissioner John J. Hickey to serve as director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation at the Missouri Department of Labor. He will fill the position that Brian May held as acting director.
Prior to this appointment, Hickey served as the employee representative commissioner on the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (LIRC) for nine years, where he heard and determined objections to prevailing wage determinations, reviewed appeals from workers’ compensation cases, unemployment insurance cases, crime victims’ compensation cases, and tort victims’ compensation cases.
Hickey also represented the 80th District in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1993 to 2002. He is a journeyman pipefitter with Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562.
Hickey began his new post on June 6. Curtis Chick has been appointed to serve as the employee representative commissioner on the LIRC.
Source: Missouri Department of Labor
Topics Workers' Compensation Missouri
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