Legal Opinion
City of Owensboro v. Adams
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided June 17, 2004No. 2003-SC-0097-WCPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the
Court by Justice COOPER.
Upon reopening a previously settled award in this workers’ compensation case, KRS 342.125(l)(d), the administrative law judge (ALJ) found that Gary Dewayne Adams was totally disabled as a result of a work-related injury, and awarded benefits under KRS 342.730(l)(a). Both the Workers’ Compensation Board and the Court of Appeals affirmed. The primary issue on appeal is not the extent and duration of Adams’s disability, but its cause. The employer asserts here as it did below that the ALJ based his decision that Adams’s disability was work-related on expert…
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