Clark v. Missouri State Treasurer

Willie C. Clark (“Claimant”) appeals the determination of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (“the Commission”) that he was entitled to Second Injury Fund (“the Fund”) benefits for permanent partial disability, rejecting Claimant’s assertion that the combined result of “the primary injury” he suffered as a machine operator and his preexisting disabilities left him permanently and totally disabled.

Claimant asserts: 1) the Commission erred in finding that he “failed to meet his burden of proof’ because it substituted its own opinion for “the opinions of un-contradicted medical…