{"id":"alj-H406235-2025-06-10","awcc_number":"H406235","decision_date":"2025-06-10","opinion_type":"alj","claimant_name":"Leslie Loucks","employer_name":"Bass Pro Group","title":"LOUCKS VS. BASS PRO GROUP AWCC# H406235 June 10, 2025","outcome":"dismissed","outcome_keywords":["dismissed:7","granted:1"],"injury_keywords":["back"],"pdf_url":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/LOUCKS_LESLIE_H406235_20250610.pdf","source_index_url":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/administrative-law-judge-opinions/","filename":"LOUCKS_LESLIE_H406235_20250610.pdf","text_length":2314,"full_text":"BEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION \n \n WCC NO.  H406235 \n \nLESLIE LOUCKS, Employee CLAIMANT \n \nBASS PRO GROUP, Employer RESPONDENT \n  \nCORVEL ENTERPRISE COMP., INC.., Carrier RESPONDENT \n \n OPINION/ORDER FILED JUNE 10, 2025  \n \nHearing  before  ADMINISTRATIVE  LAW  JUDGE  ERIC  PAUL  WELLS,  in Springdale, \nWashington County, Arkansas. \n \nClaimant represented  by FREDERICK  S.  SPENCER,  Attorney, Mountain  Home,  Arkansas; \nalthough not present at hearing. \n \nRespondent represented by DAVID C. JONES, Attorney, Little Rock, Arkansas. \n \n OPINION/ORDER \n \n This case comes on for review following a hearing on respondent’s Motion to Dismiss. \nOn September  21,  2024, Frederic  Spencer,  claimant’s  attorney,  filed a  Form AR-C \nrequesting  various  compensation  benefits in  which she alleged  injuries  to her back,  hands,  and \nfeet; however, no hearing was requested. No further action was taken in this claim.  \nOn April  15,  2025,  the  respondents  filed  a  Motion  to  Dismiss  requesting  that  this  claim \nbe dismissed for lack of prosecution. A hearing was scheduled for May 13, 2025. Notice of that \nhearing  was  sent  to  the  claimant  by  certified  mail,  return  receipt  requested  on April  17,  2025 \nUnited States Postal Department records indicate that claimant received and signed for the notice \non April 21, 2025. Despite having received notice of the scheduled hearing, the claimant failed to \nappear at the hearing. \n\nLoucks – H406235 \n2 \n \nMr. Spencer indicated by email of a letter dated April 17, 2025, that he would waive his \nappearance at the hearing and further indicated that he had no objection to the Motion to Dismiss \n“WITHOUT prejudice.”    \n After my review of respondent’s Motion to Dismiss, Mr. Spencer’s response thereto that \nhe had  no  objection  to  the  motion  to  dismiss  without  prejudice,  and  the claimant’s failure  to \nappear  at  the  scheduled  hearing, as  well  as all  other  matters  properly  before  the  Commission,  I \nfind that respondent’s Motion to Dismiss this claim should be and hereby is granted pursuant to \nA.C.A. §11-9-702(a)(4).  This dismissal is without prejudice.     \n IT IS SO ORDERED. \n       \n      ________________________________ \n      HONORABLE ERIC PAUL WELLS \n      ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE","preview":"BEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION WCC NO. H406235 LESLIE LOUCKS, Employee CLAIMANT BASS PRO GROUP, Employer RESPONDENT CORVEL ENTERPRISE COMP., INC.., Carrier RESPONDENT OPINION/ORDER FILED JUNE 10, 2025 Hearing before ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE ERIC PAUL WELLS, in Springdale, Washington County, Arkans...","fetched_at":"2026-05-19T22:39:38.976Z","links":{"html":"/opinions/alj-H406235-2025-06-10","pdf":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/LOUCKS_LESLIE_H406235_20250610.pdf","source_publisher":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/administrative-law-judge-opinions/"}}