Arkansas Department of Correction v. Holybee

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission. We affirm.

At the hearing before the administrative law judge, it was stipulated that on September 5, 1991, the claimant, an employee of the Arkansas Department of Correction, was bitten by an inmate known to be HIV positive. It was also stipulated that the claimant missed no time from work, the injury was accepted as compensable, and payment had been made for treatment of the bite wohnd. It was further stipulated that the claimant’s treating physician at the hospital emergency room…