AK Steel Corp. v. Johnston

OPINION OF THE COURT

These appeals concern the construction of KRS 342.7305. Affirming decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board), which reversed in AK Steel Ctep. v. Thomas Johnston (2004-SC-0129-WC) and affirmed in AK Steel Corp. v. Ray Allen (2004-SC-0162-WC), the Court of Appeals has determined that age-related impairment is not excluded from an AMA impairment when calculating the income benefit for a noise-induced hearing loss. We affirm.

Thomas Johnston

It is undisputed that Mr. Johnston was exposed to hazardous noise repeatedly during his forty years’ employment in the…