Stovall v. Stumbo

HAYES, Chief Judge:

This is a workers’ compensation ease in which the Special Fund, the Coal Miners’ Pneumoconiosis Fund, and the employer, Windsor Mining Company, appeal from the judgment of the Floyd Circuit Court affirming the opinion and award of the Workers’ Compensation Board granting Shelby Gene Stumbo total and permanent disability benefits for his pneumoconiosis/silicosis claim.

In November of 1973, Shelby Stumbo was awarded total and permanent disability benefits for the same disease by the Workers’ Compensation Board and had received full benefits for that illness. The issue is…