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BULLOCK v. GOODWILL COAL CO.

No. 2006-SC-0186-WC.

214 S.W.3d 890 (2007)

Douglas BULLOCK Appellant v. GOODWILL COAL COMPANY; Surgical Associates, P.S.C., St. Joseph Healthcare; Rockcastle Hospital; Hon. Grant S. Roark, Administrative Law Judge and Workers' Compensation Board Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

February 22, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McKinnley Morgan, Morgan, Madden, Brashear & Collins, London, Counsel for Appellant, Douglas Bullock.

James W. Herald, III, J. Gregory Allen, Riley & Allen, P.S.C., Prestonsburg, Counsel for Appellee, Goodwill Coal Company.

Andrew Reed Jacobs, Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Lexington, Surgical Associates, P.S.C.

A. Stuart Bennett, Jackson Kelly, PLLC, Lexington, St. Joseph Healthcare.

OPINION OF THE COURT

KRS 342.315(2) requires an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) to afford the clinical findings and opinions of a designated university evaluator presumptive weight; requires the opponent of such evidence to overcome it; and requires an ALJ to state specific reasons when rejecting a university evaluator's clinical findings and opinions.

The ALJ's opinion in the present case made no reference whatsoever...

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