Thornsbury v. Aero Energy, 95-SC-173-WC
Decision Date | 21 September 1995 |
Docket Number | No. 95-SC-173-WC,95-SC-173-WC |
Citation | 908 S.W.2d 109 |
Parties | James G. THORNSBURY, Appellant, v. AERO ENERGY and Workers' Compensation Board, Appellees. |
Court | United States State Supreme Court — District of Kentucky |
This case comes before us on appeal of an opinion of the Court of Appeals which states as follows:
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[D]espite the apparent goal that these benefits serve as an incentive for retraining, we find no indication that the legislature intended to require their use for that purpose.
We note the apparent contradiction of purpose in a statutory scheme which, on the one hand, awards benefits to encourage workers with Category 1 coal workers' pneumoconiosis and no respiratory impairment to retrain in preparation for seeking employment outside the mining industry, but which, in fact, not only fails to require that those benefits be used for retraining, but...
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