Riverside Furniture Corp. v. Rogers

David Newbern, Justice.

Lannie R. Blasingame is employed by petitioner Riverside Furniture Corporation which is a subsidiary of the other petitioner, Arkansas Best Corporation. The petitioners contend that Blasingame has filed a complaint against them in Sebastian County Circuit Court of which the court lacks jurisdiction because jurisdiction resides exclusively in the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission. We deny the petition because it is at best premature.

Blasingame suffered an admittedly compensable job-related knee injury in 1985 for which he received workers’ compensation benefits.…