McDowell v. Missouri Department of Transportation

The Missouri Department of Transportation1 (“Employer”) appeals the portion *900of the workers’ compensation award (“the award”) that awarded John 0. McDowell (“Claimant”) $17,007.60 for permanent partial disability based on a psychiatric disability resulting from a June 2012 accident in which Claimant’s right ankle was crushed by a “a large piece of asphalt[.]”2

Employer’s first point claims the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (“the Commission”) erred in admitting the “written testimony” of a psychiatrist under section 287.210.73 because it violated Employer’s federal and state…