Miracle v. Riggs

HOWERTON, Judge.

Wetzel Miracle petitions for review of an opinion of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) rendered February 13, 1995, reversing and remanding the Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) decision, in which he directed the Special Fund to pay income benefits in accordance with Newberg v. Chumley, Ky., 824 S.W.2d 413 (1992). The Board concluded that KRS 342.120(8), as amended on April 4, 1995, applied retroactively to all claims pending on that date, thus payment by the Special Fund was to be made in accordance with the amended provisions. We agree and affirm.

Miracle was exposed to…