Quinn v. Webb Wheel

John F. Stroud, Jr., Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Commission finding that appellant’s death constituted new evidence to be considered in determining the propriety of awarding a lump-sum payment pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-804 (Supp. 1993).1

Appellant sustained a compensable back injury on November 23, 1991, and was awarded permanent partial disability benefits by the administrative law judge in the amount of forty-four percent to the body as a whole in an order dated January 7, 1993. That order was affirmed on appeal to the Commission on June 22,…