Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self-Insurance Fund v. Tri State Crane Rental, Inc.

OPINION

VANMETER, Judge.

Workers’ compensation coverage is provided for injuries suffered outside of Kentucky if the contract of hire was made in Kentucky under the parameters of KRS 342.670. The primary issue we must resolve in this case is whether the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and the Workers’ Compensation Board correctly held that coverage existed for an Ohio resident employee who was injured in Ohio on the day he began work on the basis that such employment was a continuation of his previous employment with a Kentucky-based employer which had ended six months earlier. We hold that the…