HILL v. SEXTET MIN. CORP.

Nos. 2000-SC-1094-WC, 2000-SC-1122-WC.

65 S.W.3d 503 (2001)

Jerry W. HILL, Appellant, v. SEXTET MINING CORPORATION; J. Landon Overfield, Administrative Law Judge; and Workers' Compensation Board, Appellees. and Sextet Mining Corporation, Appellant, v. Jerry W. Hill; J. Landon Overfield, Administrative Law Judge; and Workers' Compensation Board, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall Hardesty, Mitchell, Joiner & Hardesty, P.S.C., Madisonville, Counsel for Jerry W. Hill.

Samuel J. Bach, John C. Morton, Morton & Bach, Henderson, Counsel for Sextet Mining.


OPINION OF THE COURT

On September 14, 1998, the claimant alleged that he was totally disabled either by injuries that occurred in 1997 and 1998, or by cumulative trauma to his neck and back from 26 years of working in low coal. An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) subsequently determined that the low back and cervical spine conditions were substantially caused by the claimant's employment, that they resulted in total...

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