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MEADE v. REEDY COAL COMPANY

No. 1999-SC-0552-WC.

13 S.W.3d 619 (2000)

Dannie MEADE, Appellant, v. REEDY COAL COMPANY, As Insured By Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; Reedy Coal Company, As Insured By Old Republic Insurance; Robert L. Whittaker, Director of Special Fund; Donald G. Smith, Administrative Law Judge; and Workers' Compensation Board, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

March 23, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Moak, Donald Wayne Taylor, Jr., Stumbo, Barber, & Moak, Prestonsburg, for Appellant.

Penelope Justice Turner, Robinette-May and Associates, P.S.C ., Pikeville, Counsel for Appellee Reedy Coal Company, As Insured by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.

Jeffrey D. Damron, Prestonsburg, for Appellee Reedy Coal Company, As Insured by Old Republic Insurance.

Joel D. Zakem, Labor Cabinet—Special Fund, Frankfort, for Appellee Whittaker.

OPINION

This workers' compensation appeal concerns whether the December 12, 1996, amendments to KRS 342.125, which prohibited the reopening of an award within two years after its entry, apply to those awards which were entered before the effective date of the amendments.

Claimant injured his left knee in February, 1992, and injured his right knee in February, 1994. On December 21, 1995, he was awarded a 50% permanent, partial occupational disability as a...

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