Palmore v. France

REYNOLDS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a Martin Circuit Court judgment which affirmed an opinion and award of the Workers’ Compensation Board.

This record arises from the consolidated workers’ compensation claims of Mr. Henry France that sought occupational disability due to a combination of a back injury and the occupational disease of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis.

The old Board’s opinion and award determined that Mr. France had 40% partial occupational disability as a result of the injury and this award was apportioned equally between the employer, A & K Coal Company, Inc., and the Special…