Brown Shoe Company v. Fooks

We have consistently held since onr earliest construction of our Workmen’s Compensation Law (as early as Birchett v. Tuf-Nut Garment Manufacturing Co., 205 Ark. 483, 169 S. W. 2d 574) that it does not call for general accident insurance and was never intended so to do. In my view, the effect of the majority opinion here is to take steps on the road toward making our compensation law, in effect, general accident insurance.

Bursitis, under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, is listed as an occupational disease along with a long list of other occupational diseases. However, the following limitations…