Kentucky Retirement Systems v. West

I must respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion, for reasons that it unteth-ers “pre-existing diseases and conditions” from its intended foundation. Moreover, it implicitly, if not directly, overrules our own unanimous precedent from two years ago, Kentucky Ret. Sys. v. Brown, 336 S.W.3d 8, 15 (Ky.2011)(“We do not believe it the intent of the legislature in drafting KRS 61.600 to deny benefits to those individuals who suffer from unknown, dormant, asymptomatic diseases at the time of their employment-”). This untethering will hurt innocent working people who were otherwise honestly…