Mine Worker Can't Collect Retraining Incentive Benefit From Employer

A divided Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a mine worker was not entitled to a retraining incentive benefit from his employer, since he had already settled a pneumoconiosis claim against, and received a retraining incentive from, a prior employer. Case: Fields v. James River Coal Service Co. No. 2017-SC-000053-WC, 03/22/2018, unpublished. Facts: After being diagnosed with pneumoconiosis, Jennings Fields filed a workers’ compensation claim against his employer, the Ikerd & Bandy Coal Co., in 1993. Fields settled the case in 1994 in exchange for a payment of a lu...