Arkansas Code Title 11, Chapter 9, Subchapter 5 - Accidental Injury or Death
- § 11-9-501 - Limitations on Compensation -- Death and Disability.
(a) (1) Compensation to the injured employee shall not be allowed for the first seven (7) days' disability resulting from injury, excluding the day...
- § 11-9-502 - Limitations on Compensation -- Exceptions.
(a) The benefits shall be paid for a period not to exceed four hundred fifty (450) weeks of disability, except that this limitation shall...
- § 11-9-503 - Violation of Safety Provisions.
(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other definition of extra-hazardous employer as provided by § 11-9-409(c), any employer who fails to utilize the consultative safety services...
- § 11-9-504 - Additional Compensation -- Illegally Employed Minor.
(a) Where an injury or death is sustained by a minor employed in violation of federal or state statutes pertaining to minimum ages for...
- § 11-9-505 - Additional Compensation -- Rehabilitation.
(a) (1) Any employer who without reasonable cause refuses to return an employee who is injured in the course of employment to work, where...
- § 11-9-506 - Limitations on Compensation -- Recipients of Unemployment Benefits.
(a) Any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, no compensation in any amount for temporary total, temporary partial, or permanent total...
- § 11-9-507 - Special Project to Improve Safety.
(a) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1987, the Workers' Compensation Commission shall allocate one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to a special project...
- § 11-9-508 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Liability of Employer.
(a) The employer shall promptly provide for an injured employee such medical, surgical, hospital, chiropractic, optometric, podiatric, and nursing services and medicine, crutches, ambulatory...
- § 11-9-509 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Amounts and Time Periods.
The amounts payable or time periods allowable for authorized medical, hospital, and other services and treatment furnished under §§ 11-9-508 -- 11-9-516, unless waived...
- § 11-9-510 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Contest of Liability.
The employer shall not be liable for any of the payments provided for in §§ 11-9-508 -- 11-9-516 in the case of a contest...
- § 11-9-511 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Physical Examination.
(a) An injured employee claiming to be entitled to compensation shall submit to such physical examination and treatment by another qualified physician, designated or...
- § 11-9-512 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Refusal to Submit to Operation.
Except in cases of hernia, which are specifically covered by § 11-9-523, where an injured person unreasonably refuses to submit to a surgical operation...
- § 11-9-513 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Approval of Charges.
(a) All persons who render services or provide things mentioned in §§ 11-9-508 -- 11-9-516 shall submit the reasonableness of the charges to the...
- § 11-9-514 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Change of Physician.
(a) (1) If the employee selects a physician, the Workers' Compensation Commission shall not authorize a change of physician unless the employee first establishes...
- § 11-9-515 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Spiritual Treatment.
(a) When an employer and employee so agree in writing, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent an employee whose injury or...
- § 11-9-516 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Information Furnished by Provider.
(a) (1) Every hospital or other person furnishing the injured employee with medical services shall permit its records to be copied by and shall...
- § 11-9-517 - Medical Services and Supplies -- Rules and Regulations.
The Workers' Compensation Commission is authorized to establish rules and regulations, including schedules of maximum allowable fees for specified medical services rendered with respect...
- § 11-9-518 - Weekly Wages As Basis for Compensation.
(a) (1) Compensation shall be computed on the average weekly wage earned by the employee under the contract of hire in force at the...
- § 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...
- § 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...
- § 11-9-521 - Compensation for Disability -- Scheduled Permanent Injuries.
(a) An employee who sustains a permanent compensable injury scheduled in this section shall receive, in addition to compensation for temporary total and temporary...
- § 11-9-522 - Compensation for Disability -- Unscheduled Permanent Partial Disability.
(a) A permanent partial disability not scheduled in § 11-9-521 shall be apportioned to the body as a whole, which shall have a value...
- § 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...
- § 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...
- § 11-9-525 - Compensation for Disability -- Second Injuries.
(a) (1) The Second Injury Trust Fund established in this chapter is a special fund designed to ensure that an employer employing a worker...
- § 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...
- § 11-9-527 - Compensation for Death.
(a) Funeral Expenses. If death results from an injury occurring on or after July 1, 1993, the employer shall pay the actual funeral expenses,...
- § 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...
- § 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...
- § 11-9-530 - Managed Care Implementation.
Implementation of Workers' Compensation Commission Rule 33 regarding managed care shall be voluntary for all employers.
Last modified: November 15, 2016