Blatter v. Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Aging

FLANIGAN, Presiding Judge.

The widow and the ten-year-old child of Robert Earl Blatter filed a claim, under “The Workers’ Compensation Law” for death benefits and burial expenses arising out of his death. Blatter was fatally injured at 9:24 p.m. on October 4, 1979, when he was hit by a vehicle as he was walking across Glenstone Avenue in Springfield. He died at the scene.

Blatter’s self-insured employer was the Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Aging. The claim was tried before James H. Wesley, Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, who found…