Wal-Mart v. Southers

OPINION

MINTON, Judge.

When calculating an employee’s average weekly wage for potential benefits under Kentucky’s Workers’ Compensation law, an employee who is concurrently employed by more than one employer may combine the wages earned from all employers “as if earned from the employer hable for compensation.” 1 Sheila Southers was injured on the job while working for Wal-Mart. She also worked for H & R Block fulltime during income tax season and intermittently throughout the balance of the year. The issue we are asked to review is whether the Workers’ Compensation Board correctly determined…