STOVALL v. GREAT FLAME COAL CO.


684 S.W.2d 3 (1984)

Thelma L. STOVALL, Commissioner of Labor (Special Fund) (Successor to John Calhoun Wells) and Coal Miners' Pneumoconiosis Fund, Appellants, v. GREAT FLAME COAL CO., INC. and Elizabeth Baker, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Discretionary Review Denied by Supreme Court September 26, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas A. U'Sellis, Dept. of Labor, Louisville, for appellants.

William J. Baird, III, R. Roland Case, Pikeville, for appellees.

Before HAYES, C.J., and CLAYTON and HOWARD, JJ.


HOWARD, Judge.

Appellants appeal a judgment of the Pike Circuit Court ordering the Special Fund to continue payment of Workers' Compensation benefits to the widow of the claimant, pursuant to the Life Expectancy Annuity Table.

On July 11, 1978, Roy Baker was awarded total occupational disability due to pneumoconiosis. He died of causes unrelated to the disease on March 27, 1981. His wife, Elizabeth Baker, appellee herein, was substituted on the award which...

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