§ 11-9-909. Action against self-insurer
(a) Each corporation is also authorized to take all necessary action, including bringing an action at law or in equity, to seek any available relief as against any workers’ compensation self-insurer, whether the self-insurer has paid all assessments levied by the Workers’ Compensation Commission on behalf of the corporation. (b) If a corporation is required […]
§ 11-9-910. Private sector participants
All private sector participants in the Arkansas workers’ compensation self-insurers’ program may be members of one (1) of the corporations acting as guaranty funds, and the Workers’ Compensation Commission may revoke any such self-insurer’s authority to act as a workers’ compensation self-insurer if the self-insurer fails to maintain membership in the applicable corporation or fails […]
§ 11-9-911. Termination of self-insurer status — Liability
Any person or entity whose workers’ compensation self-insurer status is terminated shall thereafter be subject to no further assessments by the Workers’ Compensation Commission, but shall remain liable for all assessments due prior to the date of termination.
§ 11-9-1001. Legislative declaration
The Seventy-Ninth General Assembly realizes that the Arkansas workers’ compensation statutes must be revised and amended from time to time. Unfortunately, many of the changes made by this act were necessary because administrative law judges, the Workers’ Compensation Commission, and the Arkansas courts have continually broadened the scope and eroded the purpose of the workers’ […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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.
§ 11-9-715. Fees for legal services
(a) (1) (A) Fees for legal services rendered in respect of a claim shall not be valid unless approved by the Workers’ Compensation Commission. (B) Attorney’s fees shall be twenty-five percent (25%) of compensation for indemnity benefits payable to the injured employee or dependents of a deceased employee. Attorney’s fees shall not be awarded on […]
§ 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 […]
§ 11-9-717. Attorney’s signature
(a) (1) (A) Every claim, request for benefits, request for additional benefits, controversion of benefits, request for a hearing, pleading, motion, and other paper of a party represented by an attorney shall be signed by at least one (1) attorney of record in his or her individual name, whose address shall be stated. (B) A […]
§ 11-9-801. Methods of payment
(a) Compensation shall be paid by check, by electronic funds transfer, or by state warrant. (b) Payment shall be made payable to the order of the person entitled to the compensation and paid directly to the person entitled to the compensation. (c) If the compensation beneficiary is a mental incompetent or a minor of tender […]