Addington Resources, Inc. v. Perkins

OPINION

JOHNSON, Judge.

Addington Resources, Inc. (Addington) petitions for review of the decision of the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Board (Board), rendered on September 20, 1996, that affirmed the Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) opinion. We affirm.

The claimant, Roger Perkins (Perkins), was injured while working for Addington in 1990. The parties reached a settlement in 1992 under which Addington and the Special Fund agreed to be responsible for paying fifty percent (50%) of a workers’ compensation award based on a forty percent (40%) permanent partial disability.

On April 4, 1995,…