Owens Country Sausage v. Crane

David Newbern, Judge.

This workers’ compensation appeal presents two main questions. The first is whether there is substantial evidence to support the commission’s finding that an award of the costs of a rehabilitation program are reasonable. We hold there was. Secondly, we must decide whether a claimant who appeals an administrative law judge’s decision to the commission and who loses on his appeal but wins on the cross-appeal of the respondents should be regarded as having “prevailed” on appeal and be thus entitled to an attorney’s fee as provided in Ark. Stat. Ann. § 81-1332 (Supp. 1979).…