Green Coal Co. v. Riley

OPINION

JOHNSON, Judge:

Green Coal Company, Inc. has petitioned for review of an opinion of the Workers’ Compensation Board entered on August 2, 2000. The Board affirmed the decision of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), who granted Patrick Riley retraining incentive benefits, due to his contracting category 1/0 or l/l1 coal workers’ pneu-moconiosis. Having concluded that the Board has not overlooked or misconstrued controlling statutes or precedent in ruling that the ALJ applied the appropriate version of KRS2 342.732(l)(a) to Riley’s claim, we affirm.3

Riley was employed as a welder and…