Beliew v. Stuttgart Rice Mill

Wendel L. Griffen, Judge.

David Beliew brings this appeal from the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission and challenges whether the Commission correctly (1) determined the proper compensation rate, (2) found that the Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund’s liability for payments did not begin until December 1997, and (3) found that additional payments made by Stuttgart Rice Mill, without modification of the award, are not gratuitous payments. We affirm the Commission on all points.

Beliew worked at Stuttgart Rice Mill on January 2, 1987, when he suffered a compensable injury…