Yocom v. Gantley

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Franklin Circuit Court wherein the Opinion and Award of the Kentucky Workmen’s Compensation Board was affirmed. The Board found the claimant, Eugene Gantley, to have a thirty percent disability to the body as a whole, with twenty-five percent of that disability being noncompensable. The remaining five percent disability was apportioned between the Special Fund and the employer, Sunset Memorial Gardens. The percentage calculation pursuant to KRS 342.730(l)(b) entitled Gantley to an award of $2.70 per week for as long as he is disabled. However, pursuant…