Burgess v. Siegel-Robert Plating Co.

CRIST, Judge.

John W. Burgess, Claimant, filed a workers’ compensation claim for injuries he allegedly suffered while employed by Siegel-Robert Plating Company, Employer. Hearings were held in February and March of 1990. In July of 1990, Claimant died. A suggestion of death was not filed. A motion for substitution of a party was not filed. No notice of Claimant’s death was given, and the proceeding was not revived as required by § 287.580, RSMo 1986.

On April 29, 1991, an administrative law judge (ALJ) found Claimant suffered five percent permanent partial disability as the result of his…