Arkansas Employee Leasing Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Arkansas or Court of Appeals of Arkansas where the terms employee leasing has been mentioned. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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SREBALUS v. ROSE CARE - 2/9/2000
Marian Srebalus appeals a summary judgment in which the trial court found that the doctrine of election of remedies barred her complaint. We reverse and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Appellant was...
MAVERICK TRANSPORTATION v. BUZZARD - 2/9/2000
Maverick Transportation appeals a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission holding Maverick liable for benefits awarded to its employee David Buzzard as a result of a left-knee injury suffered on February 6, 1998. In 1990 Mr....
Edwards v. First Brands Corp. - 2/9/2000
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
AFFIRMED
Terri Edwards appeals the denial of workers' compensation benefits. She argues that the Commission's decision that she had failed to rebut the presumption that her use of illegal drugs...
Sam's Wholesale Club v. Rizzi - 2/9/2000
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
AFFIRMED
This is an appeal from the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission. Appellant lists three points for appeal: (1) the sufficiency of the evidence to support additional medical...
Smith v. McKee Foods - 2/9/2000
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
AFFIRMED
This is an appeal from the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission. Appellant challenges the award of attorney's fees under Arkansas Code Annotated section 11-9-715 (Repl. 1996) as...
Wal-Mart Stores - 2/9/2000
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
AFFIRMED
Regina Royal filed a workers' compensation claim contending that she sustained a compensable injury while lifting a safe at work. The administrative law judge found that she had in...
Montgomery v. Conway Human Development Center - 2/2/2000
AFFIRMED
Appellant, Ginger K. Montgomery, appeals the Workers' Compensation Commission's order denying her benefits. Appellant contends that the Commission erroneously concluded that her previous compensable injuries of 1991 and...
Wal-Mart Stores - 2/2/2000
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
AFFIRMED
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., appeals from an order of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission awarding appellee, Leota Griffin, certain medical benefits. Appellant contends that there...
LLOYD v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - 2/2/2000
Appellant Suellen Lloyd reported a work-related shoulder injury to appellee United Parcel Service (UPS) on January 5, 1997. The injury was accepted as compensable, and Mrs. Lloyd received related medical services and total disability...
WHITE v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION - 12/16/1999
Appellant Jimmy White appeals the decision of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission denying him disability benefits. The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed the Commission's decision in White v. Georgia-Pacific Corp., 66 Ark....
FLOWERS v. NORMAN OAKS CONSTR. - 12/8/1999
James Flowers appeals the Workers' Compensation Commission's determination that his work-related injury was substantially occasioned by the use of alcohol and was not compensable. He contends that the Commission erred in finding that...
ROWLETT v. BUNTON - 12/8/1999
Appellant, David Rowlett, appeals an order awarding appellee, Laura Bunton, a lump-sum percentage of his inheritance as child support. He asserts that inheritance is not income for purposes of setting child support. We agree and...
SKELTON v. SKELTON - 11/18/1999
This appeal arises out of a divorce action and involves the distribution of a pension plan and disability benefits as marital property. Appellant raises three points on appeal. First, he argues that the trial court erred in including...
RAY v. WAYNE SMITH TRUCKING - 11/17/1999
In this workers' compensation case, the Commission denied the appellant, Jessie C. Ray, benefits because he failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was performing an employment service when he sustained an injury to...
DAVIS v. OFC. OF CHILD SUP. ENFC'MNT - 11/17/1999
Appellant, Martha S. Davis, was ordered by the Randolph County Chancery Court to pay child support in the amount of $70.00 a month. For reversal, appellant contends that the Chancery Court erred in finding that Supplemental Security...
CONTINENTAL EXPRESS - 11/11/1999
This is an appeal of a decision by the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission (Commission) that Appellee Marty Freeman suffered a compensable injury. After the Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed the Commission's decision, Appellants...
CYPHERS v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - 11/10/1999
This is the third time this issue has been before us. Appellant again challenges the Commission's determination, based upon an independent medical examination report by Dr. Jim Moore, that she sustained a five-percent permanent...
MEISTER v. SAFETY KLEEN - 11/4/1999
This workers' compensation case comes to us on a petition for review after the Commission, by a 2-1 vote, denied appellant Ernest Meister's claim, and the court of appeals, in a 3-3 decision, affirmed the Commission's holding. Meister...
GREEN BAY PACKAGING v. BARTLETT - 9/29/1999
Appellant, Green Bay Packaging, appeals from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission which found that appellee's headaches were a result of his compensable injury and that medical treatment provided for the headaches...
KILDOW v. BALDWIN PIANO & ORGAN - 9/22/1999
Lilly Kildow appeals the order of the Workers' Compensation Commission finding that she failed to prove that she sustained a compensable injury. In Kildow v. Baldwin Piano & Organ, 58 Ark. App. 194, 948 S.W.2d 100 (1997) (Kildow...
OFFICE OF CH. SUP. ENF. v. LONGNECKER - 9/1/1999
The State of Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement, as Intervenor in a case between Brenda and Gary Longnecker, appeals a decision requiring Gary Longnecker to pay child support based solely on his primary employment as a...
HOPE LIVESTOCK AUCTION COMPANY v. KNIGHTON - 6/23/1999
This is the second appeal in this workers' compensation case. In the first appeal, because the Commission conducted an extrajudicial review of documentation not introduced into evidence, this court reversed and remanded the case to the...
HOOKS v. GAYLORD CONTAINER CORPORATION - 6/23/1999
This is an appeal from the Workers' Compensation Commission's decision finding that appellant failed to prove that he sustained any hearing loss during the course and scope of his employment with appellee. On appeal, appellant argues...
BRANDON v. ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMM. - 6/23/1999
Appellants challenge Order No. 4 entered by the Arkansas Public Service Commission in which the Commission denied their request to act on behalf of other unnamed ratepayers and held that it lacked authority to award their counsel...
NIECE v. DIRECTOR - 6/16/1999
This is an appeal from the Board of Review's decision finding that appellant intentionally violated the employer's drug policy and that such action was misconduct for the purposes of unemployment law. On appeal, appellant argues that...
ALCOA v. CARLISLE - 6/16/1999
Appellee Carroll E. Carlisle, who is sixty-five years of age, brought a workers' compensation claim against appellant Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) on March 2, 1993, alleging that he had suffered hearing loss as a result of his...
THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY v. SMITH - 6/10/1999
This appeal is from a jury verdict in favor of appellees, Anna F. Smith, Roseann McKibben, and Sue Ellen Smith, the widow and daughters of the late Alva Smith, against appellants, Travelers Insurance Company
and their adjuster,...
MATTHEWS v. JEFFERSON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION - 6/9/1999
In this workers' compensation case, the appellant, Eleanor Matthews, seeks benefits from the appellee, Jefferson Hospital Association, for bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. The Commission affirmed the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and...
MINNESOTA MINING & MFG. v. BAKER - 3/25/1999
This case is before us on petition for review from the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Appellants, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M) and Old Republic Insurance Company, appealed the Workers' Compensation Commission's decision that...
CONTINENTAL EXPRESS - 3/24/1999
Continental Express, Inc. (Continental), appeals a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission reversing an administrative law judge
and finding that appellee Marty Freeman had met his burden of proving by objective...
STINE v. SANDERS - 3/24/1999
The appellees brought an action against the appellants alleging that appellants committed the torts of deceit and interference with a business expectancy during the purported purchase of appellees' business by the appellant, Don Davis....
KINNEBREW v. LITTLE JOHN'S TRUCKS - 3/24/1999
Appellant Allan Kinnebrew appeals the decision from the Workers' Compensation Commission finding that the appellant has failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the injury he sustained on
March 14, 1996, occurred...
ROGERS v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO - 3/17/1999
Henry Rogers appeals from a decision on April 10, 1998, by the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission that dismissed his appeal from the Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) decision. Appellant maintains that the dismissal of his appeal...
MEISTER v. SAFETY KLEEN - 3/10/1999
The appellant in this workers' compensation case, who suffered from preexisting degenerative disc disease, filed a claim for benefits asserting that he injured his back when he fell from a truck in the course of his employment with the...
BAKER v. FROZEN FOOD EXPRESS TRANSPORT - 3/4/1999
Appellant, Maudie Baker, an Alabama resident, challenges the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission's determination that it lacked jurisdiction to hear her claim against the appellee, Frozen Food Express Transport ("FFE"), a Texas...
WILLIAMS v. PROSTAFF TEMPORARIES - 3/4/1999
On October 14, 1995, while working at Amoco Foam, a temporary job obtained through appellee, Prostaff Temporaries, appellant, Michelle Williams, injured her back while moving a stack of foam plates. After receiving treatment for this...
EMPLOYERS INS. v. DIDION MID-SOUTH CORP. - 3/3/1999
Employers Insurance of Wausau appeals from a jury verdict in favor of appellee, Didion Mid-South Corporation, finding that appellant breached its fiduciary duty to appellee and assessing damages of $200,000. against appellant. For...
SEWARD v. THE BUD AVANTS COMPANY - 2/10/1999
The claimant in this workers' compensation case was injured in 1988, and, in an opinion issued by the administrative law judge on March 12, 1993, found to be permanently and totally disabled under the odd-lot doctrine. Maximum attorney...
CYPHERS v. UNITED PARCEL SERV. - 2/10/1999
This is the second appeal to this court of this workers' compensation matter. In CA 97-5, Priest v. United Parcel Serv., 58 Ark. App. 282, 950 S.W.2d 476 (1997), appellant challenged the Commission's determination that she sustained a...
BELIEW v. STUTTGART RICE MILL - 12/23/1998
David Beliew brings this appeal from the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission and challenges whether the Commission correctly (1) determined the proper compensation rate, (2) found that the Death and Permanent Total Disability...
ARNOLD v. TYSON FOODS - 12/16/1998
Appellant, Peggy Arnold, appeals from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission finding that she failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that her carpal tunnel syndrome was causally connected to her employment with...
ESTER v. NATIONAL HOME CTRS. - 12/10/1998
The appellant, Eugene Ester, appeals from the decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission denying him benefits for injuries he sustained in a work-related accident. The Commission found that Mr. Ester failed to rebut the statutory...
CLEEK v. GREAT S. METALS - 12/10/1998
Appellant Laurie Cleek initiated this workers' compensation case after she slipped and fell on her employer Great Southern Metals' premises on March 22, 1994. Although Great Southern later controverted Cleek's claim as being not...
BUSSELL v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP. - 12/9/1998
This is the second appeal of this workers' compensation case. The initial claim was brought by appellant, R.H. Bussell, who fell on September 7, 1986, when a stair broke in appellee's power plant causing him to fall a distance of...
Lawhon Farm Services v. Brown - 12/3/1998
James R. Brown died from an injury suffered while in the employ of Lawhon Farm Services. Pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-527 (Repl. 1996), an Administrative Law Judge awarded workers'-compensation death benefits to his three...
NEEDHAM v. HARVEST FOODS - 12/2/1998
Appellant Cathy Needham appeals the Workers' Compensation Commission's denial of permanent partial disability, wage loss, and additional benefits pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-505(a) (Repl. 1996), arguing that there is no...
CUMMINGS v. BIG MAC MOBILE HOMES - 11/19/1998
The issues raised by appellants Timothy and Alisa Cummings in this case are whether the trial court erred in concluding that an exception to the exhaustion-of-remedies doctrine did not apply and whether the regulations at issue...
INSKEEP v. EMERSON ELEC. CO. - 11/11/1998
This is an appeal from the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission. Appellant, a truck driver for appellee Emerson Electric, suffered a compensable injury in September 1977 when the truck that he was driving overturned, pinning him...
BURLINGTON INDUS. v. PICKETT - 11/11/1998
This is an appeal from a Workers' Compensation Commission order that awarded appellee, Alice Pickett, interest that was incurred on medical bills paid by her health-insurance carriers after she suffered a compensable injury while...
ERC CONTRACTOR YARD & SALES v. ROBERTSON - 11/5/1998
This case is before us on review from the Arkansas Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals agreed with appellants ERC Contractor Yard & Sales and Liberty Mutual Insurance (hereinafter referred to as ERC) that there was a presence of...
MEDLIN v. WAL-MART STORES - 11/4/1998
This is an appeal from the Workers' Compensation Commission's decision finding that appellant failed to prove that her work was the major cause of her disability. On appeal, appellant argues that there is no substantial evidence to...
SWIFT-ECKRICH - 9/30/1998
Swift-Eckrich, Inc., appeals from the opinion and order of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission filed on November 12, 1997, which awarded Sheila Brock benefits for permanent partial impairment to the body as a whole. The...
BAKER v. FROZEN FOOD EXPRESS TRANSP. - 9/23/1998
Appellant appeals from a decision of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission, which held it
did not have jurisdiction over her claim and dismissed her claim for benefits.
In March 1995, Maudie Baker, an Alabama...
JOE BRENNAN GEN. CONTRACTING v. ADAIR - 6/24/1998
Appellants, Joe Brennan General Contracting and United States Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Company, appeal from a Workers' Compensation Commission decision finding that the appellee, Randy Adair, is entitled to further benefits...
ECKHARDT v. WILLIS SHAW EXPRESS - 6/17/1998
Virgil Eckhardt appeals the amount of workers' compensation benefits awarded to him as a result of two admittedly compensable injuries he sustained while working as a truck driver for Willis Shaw Express, Inc. On appeal, Eckhardt...
WILLIFORD v. CITY OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK - 6/3/1998
This is an appeal from the Workers' Compensation Commission's decision finding that appellant failed to prove that the deceased employee's work activity was the major cause of his fatal heart attack. On appeal, appellant argues that...
ANDERSON v. SEWARD LUGGAGE CO. - 6/3/1998
Appellant Alice Anderson has filed her motion for rule on our clerk, requesting us to require our clerk to accept and file an appeal record. By letter and opinion dated March 13, 1997, appellant was notified by the Workers'...
SECOND INJURY FUND v. FURMAN - 6/3/1998
In this workers' compensation case, appellee Ronnie Furman prevailed on an appeal by appellant Second Injury Fund, and now seeks an award of an attorney's fee against the fund. His motion must be denied.
The general rule in...
MALONE v. TEXARKANA PUB. SCHS. - 5/28/1998
This appeal involves the interpretation of "rapid repetitive motion," under Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-102(5)(A)(ii)(a) (Supp. 1997), and a decision of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission finding that the appellant failed to...
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP. v. CARTER - 5/27/1998
Georgia-Pacific has appealed the decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission finding that the appellee, Johnny Carter, suffered an injury causally related to the work, and that he was entitled to temporary total disability...
HARDING v. CITY OF TEXARKANA - 5/27/1998
The appellant in this workers' compensation case was employed by the appellee answering 911 emergency calls on the third floor of the Bi-State Justice Building in Texarkana. She was not allowed to smoke on the third floor, but there...
CLEEK v. GREAT SOUTHERN METALS - 5/27/1998
Appellant, Laurie Cleek, suffered an admittedly compensable injury on March 22, 1994, when she slipped and fell on a staircase at work, landing on her buttocks and her lower back. She was seen at the Medi-Quick Clinic on March 24,...
KILDOW v. BALDWIN PIANO & ORGAN - 5/21/1998
In this case, we are asked to decide whether carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a per se compensable injury under the Workers' Compensation Act, or whether a claimant must prove that it was caused by rapid repetitive motion. The Workers'...
OZARKS UNLTD. RESOURCES COOP. - 5/14/1998
Appellant, Ozarks Unlimited Resources ("O.U.R."), brings this appeal challenging the Boone County Circuit Court's findings that (1) O.U.R. was not immune from suit pursuant to Article 5, Section 20, of the Arkansas Constitution, and...
FLOWERS v. ARKANSAS HIGHWAY & TRANSP. DEP'T - 5/13/1998
This appeal comes from the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission's denial of a claim for a knee injury sustained by Jean Flowers when a co-worker pulled a chair out from under her. The Commission's decision reversed the...
GENERAL ELEC. RAILCAR REPAIR SERVS. v. HARDIN - 5/13/1998
General Electric Railcar Repair Services (General Electric) challenges a decision by the Workers' Compensation Commission that required them to continue paying for medical treatment by Dr. C.C. Alkire on behalf of Ace Hardin. The...
HANLEY v. ARKANSAS STATE CLAIMS COMM'N - 5/7/1998
In this case, we are asked to determine whether the circuit court erred when it refused to issue either a writ of mandamus or a writ of certiorari ordering the Arkansas Claims Commission to dismiss a claim pending before it. We affirm...
COBLE v. MODERN BUS. SYS. - 5/6/1998
Appellant Charlotte Coble sustained extensive injuries after she was involved in an automobile accident on July 11, 1994. At the time she was employed by
appellee Modern Business Systems, and she later filed for workers'...
BOYD v. DANA CORP. - 5/6/1998
Appellant, James Boyd, appeals a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission that denied his claim for benefits on the finding that he failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his carpal tunnel syndrome was caused...
HOPE LIVESTOCK AUCTION CO. v. KNIGHTON - 5/6/1998
Appellant Hope Livestock Auction Company appeals the decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission affirming the administrative law judge's finding that the appellant is responsible for appellee Johnny Knighton's bipolar disorder...
OAK GROVE LUMBER CO. v. HIGHFILL - 5/6/1998
The Workers' Compensation Commission found that appellee Harry Highfill's second foot injury was a compensable consequence of his initial work-related injury. Appellee sustained his second injury when he stepped on, or tripped over, a...
JETER v. B.R. MCGINTY MECHANICAL - 5/6/1998
This is a workers' compensation case. Appellant, Lee Wayne Jeter, appeals from an order of the Commission, which found that he failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that medical problems requiring surgery in July 1994 were...
GOLDEN v. WESTARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE - 4/30/1998
This case is before us on review from the Arkansas Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals concluded that substantial evidence existed to support the Workers' Compensation Commission's decision of 20% permanent partial disability to...
SMITH v. RICELAND FOODS - 3/25/1998
Charles D. Smith appeals a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission holding that he had failed to prove by a preponderance of the credible evidence that he injured his back in a compensable fall that occurred on September 20,...
ESTER v. NATIONAL HOME CENTERS - 3/18/1998
Eugene Ester appeals a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission holding that he was not entitled to benefits for his work-related injury because he failed to prove by a preponderance of the credible evidence that his injury was...
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