State Ex Rel. Carter v. City of Independence

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

The City of Independence, Missouri, appeals from a writ of prohibition precluding it from having Claimant Helen Carter evaluated by a vocational counselor in her pending workers’ compensation case. For the following reasons, we reverse.

On October 30, 1998, Helen Carter (“Claimant”) filed a claim with the Division of Workers’ Compensation (“the Division”) against her former employer, the City of Independence, Missouri (“Employer”). She claimed injuries to her lower back, lower extremities, and body as a whole from an “accident, series of accidents, or other occupational…