Keaney v. Treasurer of Missouri

*776OPINION

ANGELA T. QUIGLESS, Judge.

The Treasurer of the State of Missouri, as custodian of the Second Injury Fund (the “Fund”), appeals the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (the “Commission”) ordering the Fund to pay a lump sum of $17,251.42 in attorney fees to the estate of Robert E. Keaney, Jr. (the “estate”). In its three points on appeal, the Fund contends that the Commission erred in ordering attorney fees to be paid in a lump sum to the estate because: (1) the Commission lacked the statutory authority to amend the award of attorney fees after the award became…