United States Steel Corp. v. Wells

WILHOIT, Judge.

The United States Steel Corporation appeals from a judgment of the Harlan Circuit Court holding it liable for payment of $10.00 weekly as its share of an award for occupational disease. The appellant maintains that its share should be no more than $2.75 weekly.

The following excerpt from the trial court’s judgment sets out the salient facts of this case and reaches what we believe to be the correct result:

On April 4,1978, the Workers’ Compensation Board awarded John Williams, Jr., compensation for occupational disease contracted on May 16, 1975, and for an injury suffered on…