Safeway Stores v. McGough

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

Safeway Stores, Inc., has appealed a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission which held that the payments for “current total disability” made to the claimant cannot be credited against the $50,000.00 maximum it must pay in permanent total disability benefits before the liability for those benefits becomes the responsibility of the Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § ll-9-502(b)(l) and (b)(2)(1987) [formerly Ark. Stat. Ann. § 81-1310(c)(2)(Repl. 1976)]. The version of that section in effect at the time of the claimant’s…