Flanigan v. St. James Paseo Learning Center

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant, Gloria Flanigan, appeals the decision of the Missouri Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (the Commission) affirming Administrative *525Law Judge (ALJ) Rebecca S. Magruder’s dismissal of her workers’ compensation claim for failure to prosecute based on her failure to appear at the setting of her case on the dismissal docket at 9:00 a.m. on September 12, 1997. Ms. Flanigan argues that it was error for the Commission to deny reinstatement of her case because there were special circumstances for her failure to appear, to wit, that her counsel was…