Bevins Coal Co. v. Ramey

Respectfully, I must dissent.

The Worker’s Compensation Act has the beneficent purpose of compensating injured workers for employment-related injuries without regard to fault. However, it is not a general accident insurance policy and does not purport to compensate for all damages sustained as a result of the injury. Tyler-Couch Construction Co. v. Elmore, Ky., 264 S.W.2d 56 (1954); National Distillers Products Corp. v. Jones, 309 Ky. 394, 217 S.W.2d 813 (1948); Mary Helen Coal Corp. v. Dusina, 308 Ky. 658, 215 S.W.2d 563 (1948). It is a purely statutory remedy and recovery of benefits can…