{"id":"alj-H407642-2025-09-30","awcc_number":"H407642","decision_date":"2025-09-30","opinion_type":"alj","claimant_name":"Colleen Mcveigh","employer_name":"Hillcrest Home","title":"MCVEIGH VS. HILLCREST HOME AWCC# H407642 September 30, 2025","outcome":"dismissed","outcome_keywords":["dismissed:6"],"injury_keywords":["shoulder"],"pdf_url":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/MCVEIGH_COLLEEN_H407642_20250930.pdf","source_index_url":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/administrative-law-judge-opinions/","filename":"MCVEIGH_COLLEEN_H407642_20250930.pdf","text_length":2186,"full_text":"BEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION \n \n WCC NO. H407642 \n \nCOLLEEN MCVEIGH, Employee CLAIMANT \n \nHILLCREST HOME, Employer RESPONDENT \n \nCCMSI, Carrier RESPONDENT \n \n \n \n OPINION FILED SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 \n \nHearing  before  ADMINISTRATIVE  LAW  JUDGE  ERIC  PAUL  WELLS  in Harrison, Boone \nCounty, Arkansas. \n \nClaimant not represented by counsel and not appearing at hearing. \n \nRespondents represented by MELISSA WOOD, Attorney at Law, Little Rock, Arkansas. \n \n STATEMENT OF THE CASE \n \n This case comes on for review following a hearing on respondents’ Motion to Dismiss.  \n On November  21,  2024,  the  claimant  filed  an  AR-C  requesting  various  compensation \nbenefits in which she alleges injuries to her right shoulder on or about October 14, 2024. There \nhas been no request for a hearing and no further action was taken in this claim. \n On May 7, 2025, the respondents filed a Motion to Dismiss requesting that this claim be \ndismissed for lack of prosecution. A hearing was scheduled for August 28, 2025. Notice of that \nhearing  was  sent  to  the  claimant  by  certified  mail,  return  receipt  requested  on June  18,  2025. \nUnited States Postal Department records indicate that claimant received and signed for the notice \non Juen 23, 2025. Despite having received notice of the scheduled hearing, the claimant failed to \nappear at the hearing and has failed to respond to the motion in any form or manner. \n\nMcVeigh – H407642 \n \n-2- \nPursuant  to  11  CAR  §25-110(d)  (previously  codified  as  Commission  Rule  099.13),  the \nCommission may enter an order dismissing a claim for want of prosecution After a review of the \nrespondents’ Motion to Dismiss, the claimant’s lack of desire to pursue her claim, and her failure \nto appear at the scheduled hearing, as well as all other matters properly before the Commission, I \nfind  that  claimant  has  failed  to  prosecute  this  claim.  Therefore,  this  claim  is  dismissed  without \nprejudice. \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. H407642 COLLEEN MCVEIGH, Employee CLAIMANT HILLCREST HOME, Employer RESPONDENT CCMSI, Carrier RESPONDENT OPINION FILED SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 Hearing before ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE ERIC PAUL WELLS in Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas. Claimant not represented by ...","fetched_at":"2026-05-19T22:36:57.748Z","links":{"html":"/opinions/alj-H407642-2025-09-30","pdf":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/MCVEIGH_COLLEEN_H407642_20250930.pdf","source_publisher":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/administrative-law-judge-opinions/"}}