Goad v. Treasurer of the State

ALOK AHUJA, Judge.

Appellant Wesley Goad, the surviving spouse of Cheryl Goad, appeals a final award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission. The Commission rejected Goad’s claim that he is entitled to the continued payment of workers’ compensation benefits, following his wife’s death, on account of a work-related injury which caused her to become permanently and totally disabled. Goad claims an entitlement to continued benefits payments under the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision in Schoemehl v. Treasurer of the State of Missouri, 217 S.W.3d 900 (Mo. banc 2007). The Commission held…