Sovereign Coal Corp. v. Adkins

WILHOIT, Judge.

These appeals are from an order of the Pike Circuit Court, affirming an award by the Workers’ Compensation Board to the appellee Denton Adkins. Both his former employer (the Sovereign Coal Corporation) and the Special Fund have appealed from this order.

Mr. Adkins’s claim was for disability which he allegedly sustained due to a work-related back injury on January 8,1981, and pneumoconiosis, which same date was the last date of his exposure to coal dust. The Board found that he had fifty-percent permanent occupational disability caused by the back injury and its arousal of a…