STATE EX REL. LACKO v. RICHARDSON

No. 22364.

450 S.E.2d 641 (1994)

192 W.Va. 52

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. David LACKO, Clinton D. Harman, Jessie Corley, David Naegele, Sr., Robert G. Cox, Stanley Wolen, Ben Shaver, Donald L. Smith, Howard McIntire, Jr., Robert S. Thorne, William Ely, Terry Wilson, James Cole, Jack Huff, George Koontz, Arch Norman, Joseph Aston, Jr., Thomas J. Myers, Gary Fox, Robert Forrester, Carl Kinzy, John Greathouse, James D. Carpenter, Sr., James O. Lawson, James Tonkovich, George Kingan, Edward Krone, Sammy R. Jacobs, Joe Murner, John Manning, William H. Greathouse, Alonzo Butler, Howard Boyd, Charles Rigor, Donald Stackpole, Marshall Adams, Ansel Kisner, Samuel Morris, Roy Mooney, Wiley Cecil, Harold Weekley, Rudolph Strauss, Burley W. Johnson, Eugene Strauss, Lewis Blake, Clarence Whitlatch, Russel Van Fossen, Gerald Walton, Harley Vincent, Virgil Vilinski, Harold Larue, Gerald Keller, Louis G. Peck, Walter Dailey, Othel Richards, Blaine Stewart, John L. Brown, Jr., Hubert Griffeth, Thomas Tichenor, Philip LaCaria, Fred A. Hamrick, Robert Niggemyer, James L. Teague, Robert C. Swann, John Garner, Keven Narick, Robert Taylor, Arthur Sullivan, Frank Hicks, Jr., Julian L. Powell, Petitioners, v. Andrew N. RICHARDSON, Workers' Compensation Commissioner, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided October 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey V. Mehalic, Scott S. Segal, Segal and Davis, L.C., Charleston, for petitioners.

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Atty. Gen., Paige A. Oliverio, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for respondent.


NEELY, Justice.

In this original proceeding in mandamus, the relators (hereinafter claimants), Workers' Compensation claimants for occupational pneumoconiosis (O.P.) benefits under W.Va. Code 23-4-15 [1986] and 23-4-15b [1990], maintain that the respondent, Andrew N. Richardson, the Workers' Compensation Commissioner, has unreasonably delayed determining the compensability of their Workers' Compensation claims. The Commissioner maintains as of 13 September...

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