Court Opinion

ID: 9646919
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:16:13.425125+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:43.645020
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FLANIGAN, Chief Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent.
“[A] voluntary compromise settlement agreement made and executed by the parties under [§ 287.390], and approved by the commission, is not thereafter reviewable on the ground of a change in condition.” Dewey v. Union Electric Light & Power Co., 83 S.W.2d 203, 206 (Mo.App.1935) (overruled on other grounds, Wentz v. Price Candy Co., 175 S.W.2d 852, 856 (Mo.1943)).
Claimant returned to work in December 1986. Claimant’s testimony was that he experienced a new type of pain. This happened, he said, “the first part of it, I think, was around April sometime, April 1987.”
This compromise settlement was approved by the commission on April 2, 1987. The claim alleges that the date of the accident, on which the instant award is based, was “4-3-87 through 9-29-87.”
I find nothing in the record to support a finding that the present complaints are attributable to conditions which arose the very next day following the compromise and not prior thereto.