JONES v. NEWBERG

No. 94-SC-528-WC.

890 S.W.2d 284 (1994)

James JONES, Appellant, v. Vicki G. NEWBERG, Acting Director of Special Fund; Now Robert L. Whittaker, Acting Director of Special Fund; Kinney Branch Coal Company; Ronald L. McDermott, Administrative Law Judge; and Workers' Compensation Board, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Publication Ordered December 22, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy G. Clark, Clark & Johnson, Pikeville, for appellant.

Cathy Utley Costelle, Angeline B. Golden, Labor Cabinet — Sp. Fund, Louisville, for appellees Newberg and Whittaker.

Stuart Bennett, Lexington, for appellee Kinney Branch Coal Co.


OPINION OF THE COURT

An award of workers' compensation benefits entered by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) under KRS 342.732(1)(b) was reversed by the Court of Appeals and remanded to the ALJ for failure to determine causation. None of the parties dispute that the then-recently rendered decision of this Court in Arch on the North Fork, Inc. v. Campbell, Ky., 865 S.W.2d 312 (1993), requires a specific finding of causation...

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