Quinn v. Webb Wheel

SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON GRANTING OF REHEARING JUNE 5, 1996

Tolley & Brooks, P.A., by: Jay N. Tolley, for appellant. Michael H. Mashburn, for appellee. John F. Stroud, Jr., Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Commission finding that appellant’s death constituted new evidence to be considered in determining the propriety of awarding a lump-sum payment pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-804 (1987).1

Appellant sustained a compensable back injury on November 23, 1991, and was awarded permanent partial disability benefits by the administrative law judge in the amount of…