Jones v. Newberg

OPINION OF THE COURT

An award of workers’ compensation benefits entered by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) under KRS 342.732(1)(b) was reversed by the Court of Appeals and remanded to the ALJ for failure to determine causation. None of the parties dispute that the then-recently rendered decision of this Court in Arch on the North Fork, Inc. v. Campbell, Ky., 865 S.W.2d 312 (1993), requires a specific finding of causation in coal workers’ pneu-moconiosis claims. See also, Newberg v. Reynolds, Ky., 831 S.W.2d 170 (1992). Contrary to that requirement, the ALJ failed to specify whether…