Holbert v. Wickes Lumber Supply

MILLER, Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation case. The Workers’ Compensation Board (board) awarded twenty per cent (20%) occupational disability, and apportioned ten per cent (10%) on the employer, Wickes Lumber Supply, and ten per cent (10%) on the Special Fund. Wickes appealed to the Fayette Circuit Court; the Special Fund did not. Wickes’s appeal named the Special Fund as a party appellee and the Special Fund filed an appropriate answer denying liability. The circuit court reversed the order of the board on the basis that appellant, Charles Holbert, had “failed to establish a work-related…