Tune v. Peabody Coal Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BACON, Judge.

This appeal involves a question of law in a workers’ compensation case. The issue is whether the trial court erred in denying claimant interest on his award.

The facts are not in dispute. Claimant filed a claim on November 19, 1984, for injury to his back and neck. On December 2, 1985, he was awarded eighteen percent disability to the body as a whole due to injury to his back and denied any compensation for injury to his neck. The court en banc affirmed the trial court’s order. This order was in turn appealed to the supreme court.

On March 3, 1987, the court of…