Death & Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund v. Legacy Insurance Services

Olly Neal, Judge.

This appeal from the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (Commission) presents the question of whether an insurance carrier is entitled to a credit for payments made toward a twenty-nine percent permanent-anatomical-impairment rating against its $75,000 maximum liabiHty for permanent-total-disabihty benefits pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. §11-9-502(b) (Repl. 1996). We answer this question in the affirmative; therefore, we affirm the decision of the Commission.

Joseph Thomas worked for appellee Legacy Insurance Services (Legacy) when he was injured in a motor-vehicle accident…