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ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS

DIVISION II 

No. CV-17-403

ABSOLUTE CARE MANAGEMENT 

AND GUARANTEE INSURANCE

COMPANY

APPELLANTS 

V.

LETHA STACY AND DEATH & 

PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY 

TRUST FUND

APPELLEES 

Opinion Delivered: November 29, 2017

APPEAL FROM THE ARKANSAS 

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION 

COMMISSION 

[NO. G507218] 

REBRIEFING ORDERED

WAYMOND M. BROWN, Judge

Absolute Care Management and its insurer, Guarantee Insurance Company, appeal 

the decision of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (Commission) finding 

that appellee Letha Stacy was performing employment services when she was injured in a 

one-vehicle wreck. We do not reach the merits of appellants’ argument due to deficiencies 

in the abstract, brief, and addendum. Therefore, we order rebriefing. 

Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-2(a)(5)

1 provides that all material information 

provided in a transcript must be abstracted and that no more than one page of transcript 

shall be abstracted without giving a record page reference. Here, although appellants have 

abstracted testimony found on pages 77, 78, 103, and 105 of the record, they have failed to 

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(2016).
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give the record page references. Additionally, appellants have given the wrong record pages 

for testimony found on page three of the abstract.2

 Appellants correctly abstracted the 

deposition testimony of Katharine Joplin, but they failed to give record page references. 

Instead, they included a copy of the transcript of the deposition in the addendum and cited 

to the addendum, which is also a violation of our rules. Transcripts, including depositions, 

should not be in the addendum.3

 

Rule 4-2(a)(6) requires a concise statement of the case without argument. It also 

mandates that the statement of the case include supporting page references to the abstract or 

addendum or both. Here, appellants’ statement of the case is replete with argument, which 

is impermissible under our rules. The statement of the case provided by appellants does not 

sufficiently include supporting page references to the abstract and/or addendum. 

Rule 4-2(a)(7) provides that reference in the argument portion of the briefs to 

material found in the abstract and addendum shall be followed by a reference to the page 

number of the abstract or addendum at which such material may be found. Appellants have 

failed to give reference page numbers throughout the argument to material found in the 

abstract and/or addendum. 

Finally, appellants have not followed Rule 4-2(a)(8), which requires the addendum 

to include documents in the record on appeal that are essential for our court to confirm its 

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Appellants have given record page references of 21 and 22 when the correct pages 

are 62 and 63 of the record. We also note that the record pages are out of order, and there 

is a coffee ring on page 62 of the record.

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See Erwin v. Frost, 2013 Ark. App. 440. 

 
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jurisdiction, to understand the case, and to decide the issues on appeal. The parties were

ordered by the administrative law judge (ALJ) to submit post-hearing briefs, which they did. 

However, appellants have failed to include these briefs in the addendum. 

Due to these deficiencies, we order rebriefing and direct appellants to file a 

substituted abstract, brief, and addendum that complies with our rules.4

 The substituted 

abstract, brief, and addendum shall be due fifteen days from the date of this order.5

 The 

deficiencies listed are not exhaustive, and appellants’ counsel should carefully review the 

rules to ensure that no other deficiencies are present. Failure to file a complying abstract, 

brief, and addendum within the prescribed time may result in affirmance for 

noncompliance.6

 

Rebriefing ordered. 

ABRAMSON and MURPHY, JJ., agree.

Jason M. Ryburn, for appellants. 

One brief only.

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Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 4-2(b)(3).

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Id. 

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Id.