Kington v. Zeigler Coal Co.

GANT, Judge.

Appellant filed a proper claim herein for disability benefits under Workers’ Compensation for the occupational disease of coal miners’ pneumoconiosis. The denial of his claim by the Board was affirmed by the Hopkins Circuit Court. We affirm the lower court and adopt its opinion as our own, to-wit:

“By its Order dated November 24, 1980, amended on January 5, 1981, the Workers’ Compensation Board dismissed the claim of the Petitioner, Joe Neil King-ton, in which he sought total, permanent disability benefits by reason of his allegation that he suffered from the occupational disease…