Title 11 — Labor and Industrial Relations

(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 …

(a) The first installment of compensation shall become due on the fifteenth day after the employer has notice of the injury or death, as provided in § 11-9-701, on which date all compensation then accrued shall be paid. Thereafter, compensation shall be paid every two (2) weeks e…

(a) (1) Each employer desiring to controvert the right to compensation shall file with the Workers' Compensation Commission on or before the fifteenth day following notice of the alleged injury or death a statement on a form prescribed by the commission that the right to compensa…

(a) (1) Whenever the Workers' Compensation Commission determines that it is for the best interest of the parties entitled to compensation, and after due notice to all parties in interest of a hearing, the liability of the employer for compensation may be discharged by the payment…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2) of this section, upon petition filed by the employer or carrier and the injured employee requesting that a final settlement be had between the parties, the Workers' Compensation Commission shall hear the petition and take testimony…

(a) In any case where an employer changes insurance carriers or where the employer having been self-insured, becomes insured or, having been insured, is approved to be self-insured, and the only dispute in a claim against that employer is the proper source of payment of benefits,…

(a) If the employer has made advance payments for compensation, the employer shall be entitled to be reimbursed out of any unpaid installment or installments of compensation due. (b) If the injured employee receives full wages during disability, he or she shall not be entitled to…

The Workers' Compensation Commission may require any employer to make a deposit or bond with the commission to secure the prompt and convenient payment of compensation, and payments shall be made upon order of the commission.

Compensation shall bear interest at the legal rate from the day an award is made by either an administrative law judge or the full Workers' Compensation Commission on all accrued and unpaid compensation.

(a) Upon making the first payment and upon suspension of payment of compensation, the employer shall notify the Workers' Compensation Commission of that fact on a form prescribed by the commission. (b) (1) Within thirty (30) days after the final payment of compensation has been m…

Upon its own initiative at any time where compensation payments are being made without an award, the Workers' Compensation Commission may and in any case where the right to compensation has been controverted or where payments of compensation have been suspended, or where an emplo…

(a) (1) When any person who receives workers' compensation benefits is incarcerated in an institution under the control of the Division of Correction, the inmate's spouse or, if no spouse, the inmate's minor dependent children, may petition the Workers' Compensation Commission to…

(a) (1) Upon approval by the commissioner, and following the adoption of such rules as the commissioner deems necessary and advisable, each insurer issuing a policy under this chapter shall offer, as a part of the policy or as an optional endorsement to the policy, deductibles op…

(a) (1) (A) The Workers' Compensation Commission is hereby authorized to recognize two separate entities formed under the Arkansas Nonprofit Corporation Act, §§ 4-28-201 — 4-28-206 and §§ 4-28-209 — 4-28-223, to function as guaranty funds for Arkansas workers' compensation self-i…

The Workers' Compensation Commission shall promulgate rules to implement this subchapter.

There shall be no liability on the part of, and no cause of action of any nature shall lie, whether at law or in equity, against any agent or employee of the two (2) corporations, their boards of directors, any Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurer, or the Workers' Compensa…

(a) Each corporation acting as the guaranty fund shall independently determine periodically the amount of money each Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurer should contribute to each fund in order to provide an adequate pool of money to pay workers' compensation benefits owed…

The Workers' Compensation Commission shall report to the board of directors of each corporation when the commission has reasonable cause to believe that the payment of potential claims by an Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurer is or may be jeopardized by the existing or p…

(a) Moneys collected by the Workers' Compensation Commission and disbursed to each corporation shall be vested in the corporation and shall not be deemed state property and shall not be subject to appropriation by the General Assembly. (b) Each corporation shall annually submit t…

The board of directors of each corporation shall direct the investment of moneys in each workers' compensation self-insurers guaranty fund, and all returns on the investments shall be retained in each fund. The moneys in each fund shall be used solely to compensate persons entitl…

(a) Each corporation shall have full rights of subrogation against any source of payment or reimbursement for payments made by the corporation on behalf of an Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurer. (b) Each corporation shall have a right of recovery through the maintenance …

(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' Compens…

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' compensa…

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.