McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corporation v. Vernie Dotson

ORDER

On February 1, 2013, this court issued an order denying McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corporation’s petition for review of a decision of the Benefits Review Board based on Vision Processing, LLC v. Groves, 705 F.3d 551 (6th Cir.2013). McCoy Elkhorn filed a petition for rehearing, arguing that its case involved additional issues not addressed in Vision Processing, namely whether an award of benefits under the 2010 Black Lung Amendments, Pub.L. No. 111-148, § 1556(a)-(c), should commence the month the miner died. For the reasons that follow, we deny the petition for rehearing.

The relevant regulation…