Compensation for disability — Disfigurement
Known as the Workers' Compensation Law
The act spans §§ 11–11 (122 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Cheshire v. Foam Molding Co. (1992)
Most recently applied in Little Rock Ambulance Authority v. Binkley (May 2022)
Init
(1) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall award compensation for serious and permanent facial or head disfigurement in a sum not to exceed three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).
(2) No award for disfigurement shall be entered until twelve (12) months after the injury.
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.