Tracor/MBA v. Artissue Flowers

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission which found that appellant’s notice of appeal from a decision of the administrative law judge to the full Commission was untimely filed.

Artis Stevens died as a result of a work-related injury. On October 2, 1991, the administrative law judge filed an opinion finding that the appellee, Artissue Flowers, is the illegitimate, posthumous child of Artis Stevens and, as such, is entitled to workers’ compensation dependency benefits.

Arkansas Code Annotated § ll-9-704(b) (6) (Supp. 1991), provides that…