Workers’ Compensation: Appellate Review – Final Award

Where an employer appealed an award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission that was denominated as a “final award allowing compensation,” the order was not a final award subject to appeal because the order expressly found that there were outstanding issues remaining that required a remand for additional evidence, so the appeal is dismissed.

Appeal is dismissed.

Grauberger v. Atlas Van Lines, Inc. (MLW No. 63796/Case No. SD31823 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Lynch, J.) Appealed from the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (David Alan Childers, Springfield, for respondent) (Todd Douglas Hilliker, St. Louis, for appellant).

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