CAL GLO COAL CO. v. MAHAN


729 S.W.2d 455 (1987)

CAL GLO COAL COMPANY, (Now Gatliff Coal Co.), Appellant, v. Vester MAHAN, Workers' Compensation Board and Special Fund: Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Fund and Department of Labor, Appellees. CAL GLO COAL COMPANY (Now Gatliff Coal Co.), Appellant, v. Brian SMITH, Special Fund, Department of Labor Workers' Compensation Board, Appellees. CAL GLO COAL COMPANY (Now Gatliff Coal Company), Appellant, v. Hubert RHODES, Special Fund and Workers' Compensation Board, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied May 22, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan Weiss, Morris, Garlove, Waterman & Johnson, Louisville, for appellant.

Cyril E. Shadowen, Hon. Thomas A. Dockter, Labor Cabinet, Division of Special Fund, Louisville, for special fund.

Dennis Nagle, Charles G. Cole, John E. Anderson, Cole, Cole & Anderson, Barbourville, for appellees.

Before COOPER, DYCHE and LESTER, JJ.


LESTER, Judge.

These are consolidated appeals from orders affirming three awards of the Workers' Compensation Board against Gatliff Coal Company. In each of these cases, the Board found the claimants to be totally occupationally disabled as a result of pneumoconiosis or black lung.

The common issue raised in each of these appeals is whether there were sufficient findings to support the Board's awards, or whether the Board's finding of pneumoconiosis, in and...

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