Court Opinion

ID: 9634679
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:20:14.242903+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:43:04.415407
License: Public Domain

John B. ROBBINS, Judge, dissenting. The real issue on appeal sometimes becomes obscured by all the rhetoric. The sole dispositive issue in this case is whether, under our present employee-unfriendly workers’ compensation law, an employee is performing employment services, i.e., performing a service for her employer, when she is going to the toilet. See Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-102(4)(B)(iii) (Supp. 1999). The majority holds that she is, and in doing so, violates the legislative mandate of Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-704(c)(3) by applying a strained, liberal construction to this law. ROAF, J., joins in this opinion.