Laturno v. Carnahan

CRIST, Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation case in which the Treasurer of the State of Missouri, as custodian of the second injury fund (hereafter Fund), appeals an award against the Fund of permanent total disability benefits to the respondent worker (hereafter claimant). The award is affirmed.

When claimant was injured at work in March, 1977, he was about fifty years old. He had worked continuously for that same employer for over thirty years notwithstanding several pre-accident disabilities, the main one being life-long mental retardation which alone, according to expert testimony, had…