Opinion ID: 1372836
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Jackie Jenkins

Text: Jackie Jenkins' wife, Patricia Jenkins, died on December 14, 1996. Mr. Jenkins subsequently filed a petition for dependents' death benefits, but the Commission denied an award based upon a report by the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board recommending no benefits. After a lengthy appeal process, this Court ultimately granted Mr. Jenkins an award of dependents' death benefits. The Commission acknowledged this Court's order on November 26, 2002, and began paying dependents' death benefits to Mr. Jenkins. However, by subsequent order dated January 14, 2005, the Commission ruled that Mr. Jenkins' dependents' death benefits would terminate on February 28, 2005, the date his wife would have reached retirement age. Mr. Jenkins' protested the order, but no ruling on his protest had been made at the time the instant petition for writ of prohibition was filed in this Court.