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Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-114

Heart or lung injury or illness

Known as the Workers' Compensation Law

The act spans §§ 11–11 (122 sections).

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 91 Ark. App. 4 - Cloverleaf Express v. Fouts (2005)

Most recently applied in Peco Foods, Inc. Occusure Claims Services, LLC And Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund v. Jeffrey Johnson (April 2024)

Acts 1993, No. 796, § 8.

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(1) A cardiovascular, coronary, pulmonary, respiratory, or cerebrovascular accident or myocardial infarction causing injury, illness, or death is a compensable injury only if, in relation to other factors contributing to the physical harm, an accident is the major cause of the physical harm.

(2) An injury or disease included in subsection (a) of this section shall not be deemed to be a compensable injury unless it is shown that the exertion of the work necessary to precipitate the disability or death was extraordinary and unusual in comparison to the employee's usual work in the course of the employee's regular employment or, alternately, that some unusual and unpredicted incident occurred which is found to have been the major cause of the physical harm.

(3) Stress, physical or mental, shall not be considered in determining whether the employee or claimant has met his or her burden of proof.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.