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AR Code § 11-9-519 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death|§ 11-9-519. Compensation for disability — Total disability

 (a) In case of total disability, there shall be paid to the injured employee during the continuance of the total disability sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of his or her average weekly wage.  (b) In the absence of clear and convincing proof to the contrary, the loss of both hands, both arms, both legs, both eyes, or of any two (2) thereof shall constitute permanent total disability.  (c) In all other cases, permanent total disability shall be determined in accordance with the facts.  (d)  (1) No more often than annually, the carrier or self-insured employer or the Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund may require an injured worker receiving permanent total disability benefits to, as of the date thereof, certify on forms provided by the Workers' Compensation Commission that he or she is permanently and totally disabled and not gainfully employed.  (2) Notice of the requirement shall be made by certified mail.  (3) Failure of the employee to so certify within thirty (30) days after receipt of the notice shall permit the discontinuance of benefits without penalty until otherwise ordered by the commission.    (e)  (1) “Permanent total disability” means inability, because of compensable injury or occupational disease, to earn any meaningful wages in the same or other employment.  (2) The burden of proof shall be on the employee to prove inability to earn any meaningful wage in the same or other employment.    (f) In considering a claim for permanent disability, the commission and the courts shall not consider the odd-lot doctrine.  (g)  (1)  (A) The commission, after a public hearing, shall adopt an impairment rating guide to be used in the assessment of anatomical impairment.  (B) The guide shall not include pain as a basis for impairment.    (2) The impairment rating guide adopted by the commission shall be subject to review by the General Assembly before April 1 of every odd-numbered year beginning with the regular session of 1999.
AR Code § 11-9-520 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death|§ 11-9-520. Compensation for disability — Temporary partial disability

 In case of temporary partial disability resulting in the decrease of the injured employee's average weekly wage, there shall be paid to the employee sixty-six and two-thirds percent (662/3%) of the difference between the employee's average weekly wage prior to the accident and his or her wage-earning capacity after the injury.
AR Code § 11-9-523 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death|§ 11-9-523. Compensation for disability — Hernia

 (a) In all cases of claims for hernia, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Workers' Compensation Commission:  (1) That the occurrence of the hernia immediately followed as the result of sudden effort, severe strain, or the application of force directly to the abdominal wall;  (2) That there was severe pain in the hernial region;  (3) That the pain caused the employee to cease work immediately;  (4) That notice of the occurrence was given to the employer within forty-eight (48) hours thereafter; and  (5) That the physical distress following the occurrence of the hernia was such as to require the attendance of a licensed physician within seventy-two (72) hours after the occurrence.    (b)  (1) In every case of hernia, it shall be the duty of the employer forthwith to provide the necessary and proper medical, surgical, and hospital care and attention to effectuate a cure by radical operation of the hernia, to pay all reasonable expenses in connection therewith, and, in addition, to pay compensation not exceeding a period of twenty-six (26) weeks.  (2) In case the employee shall refuse to permit the operation, it shall be the duty of the employer to provide all necessary first aid, medical and hospital care and service, to supply the proper and necessary truss or other mechanical appliance to enable the employee to resume work, to pay all reasonable expenses in connection therewith, and, in addition, to pay compensation not exceeding a period of thirteen (13) weeks.    (c) In case death results within a period of one (1) year, either from the hernia or from the radical operation thereof, compensation shall be paid the dependents as provided in other death cases under this chapter.  (d) Recurrence of the hernia following radical operation thereof shall be considered a separate hernia, and the provisions and limitations regarding the original hernia shall apply.
AR Code § 11-9-524 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death|§ 11-9-524. Compensation for disability — Disfigurement

 (a) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall award compensation for serious and permanent facial or head disfigurement in a sum not to exceed three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).  (b) No award for disfigurement shall be entered until twelve (12) months after the injury.
AR Code § 11-9-526 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death|§ 11-9-526. Compensation for disability — Refusal of employee to accept employment

 If any injured employee refuses employment suitable to his or her capacity offered to or procured for him or her, he or she shall not be entitled to any compensation during the continuance of the refusal, unless in the opinion of the Workers' Compensation Commission, the refusal is justifiable.
AR Code § 11-9-528 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death|§ 11-9-528. Employer records

 (a) Every employer shall keep a record with respect to any injury to an employee.  (b) The record shall contain such information of disability or death with respect to the injury as the Workers' Compensation Commission may by rule require.  (c) The record shall be available for inspection by the commission or by any state authority at such time and under such conditions as the commission may by rule prescribe.
AR Code § 11-9-529 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death|§ 11-9-529. Employer reports

 (a) Within ten (10) days after the date of receipt of notice or of knowledge of injury or death, the employer shall send to the Workers' Compensation Commission a report setting forth:  (1) The name, address, and business of the employer;  (2) The name, address, and occupation of the employee;  (3) The cause and nature of the injury or death;  (4) The year, month, day, and hour when, and the particular locality where, the injury or death occurred; and  (5) Such other information as the commission may require.    (b) Additional reports with respect to the injury and of the condition of the employee shall be sent by the employer to the commission at such time and in such manner as the commission may prescribe.  (c) Any report provided for in subsection (a) or (b) of this section shall not be evidence of any fact stated in the report in any proceeding with respect to the injury or death on account of which the report is made.  (d) The mailing of any report in a stamped envelope, properly addressed, within the time prescribed in subsection (a) or (b) of this section, shall be in compliance with this section.  (e)  (1) Any employer who after notice refuses to send any report required of it by this section shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount up to five hundred dollars ($500) for each refusal.  (2) Whenever the employer has failed or refused to comply as provided in this section, the commission may serve upon the employer a proposed order declaring the employer to be in violation of this chapter and containing the amount, if any, of the civil penalty to be assessed against the employer pursuant to this section.    (f)  (1) An employer may contest a proposed order of the commission issued pursuant to subsection (e) of this section by filing with the commission, within twenty (20) days of receipt of the proposed order, a written request for a hearing.  (2) If a written request for hearing is not filed with the commission within this time, the proposed order, proposed penalty, or both, shall be a final order of the commission.  (3) Such a request for a hearing need not be in any particular form but shall specify the grounds upon which the person contests the proposed order, the proposed assessment, or both.  (4) A proposed order by the commission pursuant to this section is prima facie correct, and the burden is upon the employer to prove that the proposed order is incorrect.    (g) Hearings conducted under this section shall proceed as provided in §§ 11-9-704 — 11-9-711.  (h) If an employer fails to pay any civil penalty assessed against the employer after an order issued pursuant to this section has become final by operation of law, the commission may petition the circuit court of the county wherein is located the employer's principal place of business for an order enjoining the employer from engaging in further employment or conduct of business or until such time as the employer makes all required reports and pays all civil penalties.
AR Code § 11-9-530 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death|§ 11-9-530. Managed care implementation

 Implementation of Workers' Compensation Commission Rule 33 regarding managed care shall be voluntary for all employers.
AR Code § 11-9-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 6 - Occupational Disease|§ 11-9-603. Practice and procedure

 (a)  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, procedure with respect to notice of disability or death and as to the filing of claims and determination of claims shall be the same as in cases of accidental injury or death.  (2)  (A) Written notice shall be given to the employer of an occupational disease by the employee, or someone in his or her behalf, within ninety (90) days after the first distinct manifestation thereof.  (B) In the case of death from an occupational disease, written notice of death shall also be given to the employer within ninety (90) days thereafter.      (b) An award or denial of award of compensation for an occupational disease may be reviewed and compensation increased, reduced, or terminated where previously awarded, or awarded where previously denied, only upon proof of fraud or undue influence or of change of condition, and then only upon application by a party in interest made not later than one (1) year after the denial of award or, where compensation has been awarded, after the award or the date when the last payment was made under the award, except in cases of silicosis or asbestosis, where the time limit shall be two (2) years.
AR Code § 11-9-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-701. Notice of injury or death

 (a)  (1) Unless an injury either renders the employee physically or mentally unable to do so, or is made known to the employer immediately after it occurs, the employee shall report the injury to the employer on a form prescribed or approved by the Workers' Compensation Commission and to a person or at a place specified by the employer, and the employer shall not be responsible for disability, medical, or other benefits prior to receipt of the employee's report of injury.  (2) All reporting procedures specified by the employer must be reasonable and shall afford each employee reasonable notice of the reporting requirements.  (3) The foregoing shall not apply when an employee requires emergency medical treatment outside the employer's normal business hours; however, in that event, the employee shall cause a report of the injury to be made to the employer on the employer's next regular business day.    (b)  (1) Failure to give the notice shall not bar any claim:  (A) If the employer had knowledge of the injury or death;  (B) If the employee had no knowledge that the condition or disease arose out of and in the course of the employment; or  (C) If the commission excuses the failure on the grounds that for some satisfactory reason the notice could not be given.    (2) Objection to failure to give notice must be made at or before the first hearing on the claim.
AR Code § 11-9-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-703. Preliminary conference procedure

 The Workers' Compensation Commission is authorized and directed to promulgate appropriate rules to establish and implement, for claims with respect to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 1987, a preliminary conference procedure designed to accomplish the following objectives:   (1) To provide the claimant an opportunity to confer with a legal advisor on the staff of the commission to be advised of his or her rights under this chapter and to ensure that the rights are protected. The conference shall be held in the county where the accident occurred, if the accident occurred in this state, unless otherwise agreed to between the parties, or otherwise directed by the commission;  (2) To provide an opportunity for, but not to compel, a binding settlement of some or all the issues present at the time;  (3) To facilitate the resolution of issues without the expense of litigation or attorney's fees for either party;  (4)  (A)  (i) To authorize the legal advisor to approve compromise settlements entered into at or as a result of the preliminary conference and those joint petition settlements entered into pursuant to § 11-9-805.  (ii) Provided, however, the same legal advisors shall not both advise the claimant and approve the joint petition.    (B) The purpose and intent of this section is to affirm the duty of the commission to provide legal assistance, thereby reducing litigation and workers' compensation costs; and    (5) No moneys appropriated by Acts 1987, No. 1046, or any other act shall be expended to fund preliminary conferences held pursuant to § 11-9-102,§ 11-9-205, §§ 11-9-501 — 11-9-503,§ 11-9-517,§ 11-9-521,§ 11-9-522,§ 11-9-527,§§ 11-9-701 — 11-9-704,§ 11-9-715,§ 11-9-802, or § 11-9-804, other than in the county where the accident occurred, if the accident occurred in this state, the county of the claimant's residence, or such other county as agreed to by the parties.
AR Code § 11-9-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-706. Conduct of proceedings — Contempt

 (a) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall have the power to preserve and enforce order during any proceeding had before it, to issue subpoenas for and administer oaths to and compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses, and require the production of books, papers, documents, and other evidence.  (b) If any person or party in proceedings before the commission disobeys or resists any lawful order or process, or misbehaves during a hearing, or so near the place thereof so as to obstruct the hearing or neglects to produce, after having been ordered to do so, any book, paper, or document, or refuses to appear after having been subpoenaed, or upon appearing refuses to take oath as a witness, or after having taken the oath refuses to be examined according to law, or refuses to comply with any final order of an administrative law judge or the commission, or willfully refuses to pay an uncontroverted medical or related expense within forty-five (45) days after the respondent has received the statement, then the person or party, at the discretion of the administrative law judge or the commission, may be found to be in contempt of the commission and may be subject to a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
AR Code § 11-9-707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-707. Presumptions

 In any proceeding for the enforcement of a claim for compensation, the following prima facie presumptions shall exist:   (1) That the Workers' Compensation Commission has jurisdiction;  (2) That sufficient notice was given; and  (3) That the injury was not occasioned by the willful intention of the injured employee to bring about the injury of himself or herself or another.
AR Code § 11-9-708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-708. Depositions

 The Workers' Compensation Commission may cause depositions of witnesses to be taken in such manner as it may direct.
AR Code § 11-9-709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-709. Witness fees

 Each witness who appears in obedience to a subpoena shall be entitled to the same fees as witnesses in a civil action in the circuit court.
AR Code § 11-9-710 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-710. Attorneys

 (a) Where the Workers' Compensation Commission is a party to or is otherwise interested in a court proceeding under this chapter, it may employ attorneys to appear in its behalf.  (b) If requested by the commission, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General or the prosecuting attorneys of the different circuits to represent the commission without extra compensation.
AR Code § 11-9-712 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-712. Enforcement of order or award

 If any employer fails to comply with a final compensation order or award, any beneficiary of the order or award, or the Workers' Compensation Commission, may file a certified copy of the order or award in the office of the circuit clerk of any county in this state where any property of the employer may be found. At that time, the circuit clerk shall enter the order or award in the judgment record of the county, and the order or award so recorded shall be a judgment and lien as are judgments of the circuit court, and enforceable as such.
AR Code § 11-9-713 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-713. Modification of awards

 (a)  (1) Except where a joint petition settlement has been approved, the Workers' Compensation Commission may review any compensation order, award, or decision.  (2) This may be done at any time within six (6) months of termination of the compensation period fixed in the original compensation order or award, upon the commission's own motion or upon the application of any party in interest, on the ground of a change in physical condition or upon proof of erroneous wage rate.  (3) Upon the review, the commission may make an order or award terminating, continuing, decreasing, or increasing for the future the compensation previously awarded, subject to the maximum limits provided for in this chapter.    (b) The review and subsequent order or award shall be made in accordance with the procedure prescribed in § 11-9-704.  (c) No review shall affect any compensation paid pursuant to a prior order or award.  (d) The commission may, at any time, correct any clerical error in any compensation order or award.  (e) Aging and the effects of aging on a compensable injury are not to be considered in determining whether there has been a change in physical condition. Nor shall aging or the effect of aging on a compensable injury be considered in determining permanent disability pursuant to this section or any other section in this chapter. The purpose and intent of this section is to annul any and all case law inconsistent herewith, including International Paper Co. v. Tuberville, 302 Ark. 22, 786 S.W.2d 830 (1990).
AR Code § 11-9-714 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-714. Costs in proceedings brought without reasonable grounds

 If the court having jurisdiction of proceedings in respect of any claim or compensation order determines that the proceedings in respect to the claim or order have been instituted or continued without reasonable grounds, the cost of the proceedings shall be assessed against the party who has instituted or continued the proceedings.
AR Code § 11-9-716 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 11 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Subchapter 7 - Proceedings Before Workers' Compensation Commission|§ 11-9-716. Lump-sum attorney's fees

 (a) The Workers' Compensation Commission is authorized to approve lump-sum attorney's fees for legal services rendered in respect of a claim before the commission.  (b) The lump-sum attorney's fees are allowable notwithstanding that the award of compensation to the injured employee is to be paid on an installment basis.  (c) Lump-sum attorney's fees, if approved by the commission, shall be discounted at the rate provided in § 11-9-804, as that provision may be amended from time to time.