Hampton v. Black

All attorneys who practice workers’ compensation law should take special note of this case, at least to the extent that it deals with what is an appealable order in cases sought to be appealed from the Commission. Suppose you represented one of the parties in the instant case and concluded, as the dissenting opinion does, that the Commission’s order was not an appealable order. Would the majority of this court allow you to appeal the Commission’s order at some later date?

As stated in my concurrence in American Mutual Ins. Co. v. Argonaut Ins. Co., 33 Ark. App. 82, 801 S.W.2d 55 (1991), what…