Sanders v. St. Clair Corp.

GARRISON, Judge.

These consolidated appeals from an award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Com-mission (Commission) raise two issues: (1) whether the Commission erred in denying workers’ compensation benefits for permanent partial disability to a dependent of an employee who sustained compensable injuries but died, from unrelated causes, before reaching maximum medical improvement from those injuries; and (2) whether the Commission erred in calculating the applicable compensation rate for the employee’s claim for temporary total disability.

Robert Sanders (Employee) installed home siding…