Garcia v. St. Louis County

CRANDALL, Judge.

Claimant, Julius Garcia, appeals from the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Commission) affirming the award of the administrative law judge (ALJ) which awarded him workers’ compensation benefits for a work related injury for which his employer, St. Louis County, was liable and for a preexisting disability for which the Treasurer of Missouri as Custodian of the Second Injury Fund (Second Injury Fund) was liable. We affirm.

The evidence adduced at the hearing established that on August 16, 1989, claimant was working as a police officer in the employ of…