Death & Permanent Disability Trust Fund v. Anderson

Bird, Judge.

The Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund brings this appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission involving the interpretation of the statutory term “full-time student.” Arkansas Code Ann. § 11 — 9— 527(d)(2) (Repl. 2002) directs that benefits to an otherwise eligible child of a deceased employee “shall not terminate at the age of eighteen (18) years .provided the child is a full-time student who has not attained the age of twenty-five (25) years.” The Commission interpreted the statute to mean that benefit payments to an otherwise eligible student…