Emerson Electric Co. v. White

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The workmen’s compensation commission (1) approved, retroactively, the claimant White’s request that he be permitted to change physicians and (2) found that White’s total temporary disability had commenced on April 1, 1975. The circuit court upheld the commission. The self-insured employer questions both the commission’s findings.

On the first point, the statute provides that the commission may order a change of physicians when, “in its discretion,” such change is deemed “necessary or desirable.” Ark. Stat. Ann. § 81-1311 (Repl. 1976). We have recognized the…