{"id":"alj-H402807-2025-04-29","awcc_number":"H402807","decision_date":"2025-04-29","opinion_type":"alj","claimant_name":"Lawrence Ragan","employer_name":"Mountain View School District","title":"RAGAN VS. MOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT AWCC# H402807 April 29, 2025","outcome":"dismissed","outcome_keywords":["dismissed:5","denied:1"],"injury_keywords":["ankle","fracture"],"pdf_url":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/RAGAN_LAWRENCE_H402807_20250429.pdf","source_index_url":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/administrative-law-judge-opinions/","filename":"RAGAN_LAWRENCE_H402807_20250429.pdf","text_length":3526,"full_text":"BEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION \nCLAIM NO. H402807 \n \nLAWRENCE RAGAN, EMPLOYEE    CLAIMANT \nMOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT, \nSELF INSURED        RESPONDENT \n \nARKANSAS SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOC.,    RESPONDENT \nTHIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR \n \nAMENDED OPINION AND ORDER FILED APRIL 29, 2025  \nThe Hearing before Administrative Law Judge James D. Kennedy in Clinton, \nArkansas, was held on April 3, 2025. \nThe Claimant was pro-se and failed to appear. \nRespondents were represented by Jarrod Parrish, of Little Rock, Arkansas. \n \nSTATEMENT OF THE CASE \n A  hearing  was  held  in  the  above  styled  matter  on the  3\nrd\n day  of April 2025, in \nClinton, Arkansas, on Respondent’s Motion to Dismiss for failure to prosecute pursuant \nto Ark. Code Ann. 11-702 and Rule 099.13 of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Act.   \nThe claimant was pro se and failed to appear on his own behalf.  The respondents were \nrepresented  by Jarrod  Parrish of  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  who introduced 10  pages  of \ndocuments that were admitted into the evidentiary record.  \n The  documents  included  a First  Report  of  Injury  filed  on  April 19,  2024, which \ndescribed  the  claimed  injury  as  an  ankle  fracture  that  occurred  while the claimant  was \nwalking  on  a  slope  between the parking  lot  and  a  bus, and  which occurred when he \nslipped and fell.  An AR-2 was filed on April 30, 2024, which provided that the claim was \ndenied  due  to  not  arising  out  of  or  within  the  course  and  scope  of  the  claimant’s \n\nLAWRENCE RAGAN – H402807 \n2 \n \nemployment.  On  May  10,  2024,  the  claimant  contacted  the  Commission  by  letter, \nrequesting  a  review  of  his  claim  denial.    The  claimant  responded to  the  prehearing \nprocess and the matter was set for a hearing on January 23, 2025, in Clinton Arkansas.   \n On  December  29,  2024,  the  Claimant  notified  the  Commission  by  email  that  he \nwas cancelling his request “for appeal in regard to the above-referenced claim” and the \nhearing  was  cancelled.  On  or  about  February 18,  2025,  the  Respondents  notified  the \nCommission  by  letter  that  they  were  requesting  that  the  claim  be  dismissed  due  to  no \nForm AR-C being filed by the Claimant and for the Commission to take “whatever action \nis necessary” for the dismissal of the claim.  No response was filed by the Claimant so \nappropriate notice of a Motion to Dismiss hearing was provided to the Claimant setting \nthe hearing for April 3, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in Clinton Arkansas.  Prior to the hearing, the \nclaimant notified the Commission he did not wish to pursue his claim with the Workers’ \nCompensation Commission. \n A  hearing  was  held  on April  3, 2025, and  the  claimant failed  to  appear.    The \nRespondents  were  represented  by Jarrod Parrish,  who  requested  that  the  matter  be \ndismissed pursuant to Rule 099.13 of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission \nand Ark. Code Ann. 11-9-702. \n \n \n \n \n\nLAWRENCE RAGAN – H402807 \n3 \n \nORDER \n Pursuant to the above statement of the case, as well as the documents entered \ninto the evidentiary record and statements by the Attorney for the Respondents, there is \nno alternative but to grant the Motion to Dismiss without prejudice pursuant to Rule 099.13 \nof the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission and Ark. Code Ann. 11-9-702.   \nIT IS SO ORDERED. \n                \n      ____________________________ \n                JAMES D. KENNEDY \n               ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE","preview":"BEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION CLAIM NO. H402807 LAWRENCE RAGAN, EMPLOYEE CLAIMANT MOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT, SELF INSURED RESPONDENT ARKANSAS SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOC., RESPONDENT THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER FILED APRIL 29, 2025 The Hearing before Administrative Law Judge J...","fetched_at":"2026-05-19T22:42:11.992Z","links":{"html":"/opinions/alj-H402807-2025-04-29","pdf":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/RAGAN_LAWRENCE_H402807_20250429.pdf","source_publisher":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/administrative-law-judge-opinions/"}}