Bartee v. University Medical Center

OPINION OF THE COURT

KRS 342.125 permits a final workers’ compensation award to be reopened. KRS 342.125(4) gives an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) broad authority to modify a reopened award but also provides that “[rjeopening shall not affect the previous order or award as to any sums already paid thereunder, and any change in the amount of compensation shall be ordered only from the date of filing the motion to reopen.”

During the pendency of the defendant-employer’s reopening to contest its liability for a surgery and after the claimant returned to work, she filed a motion to reopen to seek…