Parker v. Laclede Gas Co.

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Laclede Gas Company, employer, appeals from an award by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission.

Two issues are presented on appeal. One challenges the finding of the Commission that the employee Parker is permanently totally disabled. There is medical evidence to support this finding and we find the challenge without merit. The second issue involves the distribution of proceeds recovered in a settlement resulting from a lawsuit against a third party. The issue presented has not heretofore been decided in this state.

Parker was severely burned in an explosion while…