CARE MANOR OF BAXTER COUNTY v. WHEELER

No. CA 08-702.

307 S.W.3d 32 (2009)

2009 Ark. App. 132

CARE MANOR OF BAXTER COUNTY and Risk Management Resources, Appellants, v. Debra K. WHEELER, Second Injury Fund, and Death & Permanent Total Disability Fund, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

February 25, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Worley, Wood & Parrish, P.A., by: Melissa Wood, Little Rock, for appellants.

Frederick S. "Rick" Spencer, Mountain Home, for appellee Debra Wheeler.


D.P. MARSHALL JR., Judge.

The question in this workers' compensation case is whether an employer can, by stopping payment of Commission-ordered medical benefits, start the statute of limitations running on the employee's later claim to resume those payments. It cannot. We therefore affirm the Commission's finding that Debra Wheeler's claim is not time-barred. The timing facts are undisputed. We thus review the limitations question, an issue of law, de novo. Helena...

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