Davis v. Wilson

BREETZ,* Judge.

James Wilson was injured while working in Tennessee and filed for workers’ compensation benefits in Kentucky. The board found that he had sustained both a compen-sable injury and an occupational disability but refused to award him benefits under the Kentucky act on the ground that he was outside the extraterritorial coverage of that act. Wilson filed a petition for review in the Bell Circuit Court. The circuit court reversed that portion of the order which had denied extraterritorial coverage. Only the Uninsured Employers’ Fund has appealed from the judgment of the lower court.…