Federal Insurance Co. v. West

This appeal is from a summary judgment entered March 26, 1980, which awarded West $2,137 in disability benefits and an attorney’s fee of $1,578.75, involving a dispute concerning the amount of benefits payable under a Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Board award.

West sought to enforce the award of the Board granting him temporary total benefits from February 15, 1975, through August 4, 1975. He sustained a work-related injury on February 15, 1975, while employed as a truck driver. As a result of the truck-automobile collision, he instituted an independent suit against the tort-feasor for his…