Curry v. Ozarks Electric Corp.

LIMBAUGH, Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation case in which employer, Ozarks Electric Corp. (Ozarks), and its insurer, Continental Western Insurance Company, appeal a decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Commission) awarding a direct payment of $105,968.35 to Cox Health Systems (Cox) for medical services rendered to Ozarks’ employee, Robert Curry. After opinion by the Court of Appeals, Southern District, this Court granted transfer, Mo. Const, art. V, sec. 10, to determine: (1) whether the Commission had authority to award Cox direct payment under section…