Aldridge v. Southern Missouri Gas Co.

JAMES K. PREWITT, Judge.

Employer and Insurer appeal from an award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (“Commission”) reversing the decision of the administrative law judge (“ALJ”) that denied Paul Dean Al-dridge’s (“Claimant”) claim for workers’ compensation. Claimant had suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack) and a subsequent stroke on August 31, 1999, which he claimed was a work-related injury arising out of and in the course of his employment and for which he sought permanent and total disability benefits.

Claimant, sixty-three years old at the time of his heart…