Beale v. Stratton

GANT, Justice.

These cases come to us on discretionary review from the Court of Appeals and that *202court’s holding that the deletion of certain language from KRS 342.120(5) had the effect of requiring the Special Fund to compensate the employee for prior active disabilities. We disagree, and reverse.

Monie D. Stratton was employed by Curtis 1000. In 1969, she received a non-work-related back injury while mopping the floors in her home, which injury required a spinal fusion. She returned to work after this operation and in 1974 received a work injury in which her right thumb and three fingers were…