{"id":"full_commission-H304343-2025-02-11","awcc_number":"H304343","decision_date":"2025-02-11","opinion_type":"full_commission","claimant_name":"Diana Coleman","employer_name":"Youth Home, Inc","title":"COLEMAN VS. YOUTH HOME, INC. AWCC# H304343 February 11, 2025","outcome":"denied","outcome_keywords":["affirmed:3","granted:2","denied:4"],"injury_keywords":["knee","hip"],"pdf_url":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Coleman_Diana_H304343_20250211.pdf","source_index_url":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/full-commission-opinions/","filename":"Coleman_Diana_H304343_20250211.pdf","text_length":3416,"full_text":"NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION \n \nBEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION \n \nCLAIM NO. H304343 \n \nDIANA COLEMAN, EMPLOYEE    CLAIMANT \n \n \nYOUTH HOME, INC., SELF-INSURED, EMPLOYER           RESPONDENT \n \n \nRISK MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, TPA                           RESPONDENT \n \n \nOPINION FILED FEBRUARY 11, 2025 \n \nUpon review before the FULL COMMISSION in Little Rock, Pulaski County, \nArkansas. \n \nClaimant represented by the HONORABLE WILLARD PROCTOR JR., \nAttorney at Law, Little Rock, Arkansas. \n \nRespondents represented by the HONORABLE MELISSA WOOD, Attorney \nat Law, Little Rock, Arkansas. \n \nDecision of Administrative Law Judge:  Affirmed and Adopted. \n \nOPINION AND ORDER \n Claimant appeals an opinion and order of the Administrative Law \nJudge filed October 8, 2024. In said order, the Administrative Law Judge \nmade the following findings of fact and conclusions of law: \n1. 1. The AWCC has jurisdiction over this claim. \n  \n2. The previously noted stipulations are accepted as fact.  \n \n3. The claimant failed to prove by a preponderance of the \nevidence that she suffered a compensable injury.  \n \n\n \nColeman-H304343    2  \n \n \n4. The claimant is, therefore, not entitled to the benefits \nsought, and she is not entitled to an attorney’s fee. \n \n We have carefully conducted a de novo review of the entire record \nherein and it is our opinion the Administrative Law Judge's decision is \nsupported by a preponderance of the credible evidence, correctly applies \nthe law, and should be affirmed. Specifically, we find from a preponderance \nof the evidence the findings of fact made by the Administrative Law Judge \nare correct and they are, therefore, adopted by the Full Commission.  \n Therefore, we affirm and adopt the October 8, 2024 decision of the \nAdministrative Law Judge, including all findings and conclusions therein, as \nthe decision of the Full Commission on appeal.  \n IT IS SO ORDERED. \n    ___________________________________ \n    SCOTTY DALE DOUTHIT, Chairman \n \n     \n    ___________________________________ \n    MICHAEL R. MAYTON, Commissioner \n \n \nCommissioner Willhite concurs. \n \nCONCURRING OPINION \n  After my de novo review of the entire record, I concur with the \nmajority opinion finding that the Claimant failed to prove by a \n\n \nColeman-H304343    3  \n \n \npreponderance of the evidence that she suffered a compensable injury to \nher right knee and hip.  \n While Claimant fell during the course of her employment on June 19, \n2023, there is no objective evidence of injury as required by Ark. Code Ann. \n§ 11-9-102(4)(A).  A compensable injury must be established by medical \nevidence supported by objective findings and medical opinions addressing \ncompensability must be stated within a degree of medical certainty.  Smith-\nBlair, Inc. v. Jones, 77 Ark. App. 273, 72 S.W.3d 560 (2002).  There is no \nevidence in the record that Claimant’s authorized physician found any \nobjective evidence of injury as a result of the Claimant’s fall in the course \nand scope of her employment.  Thus, I cannot say that the evidence in the \nrecord is sufficient to entitle Claimant to medical treatment or temporary \ntotal disability as a result of her fall on June 19, 2023.   \n For the foregoing reason, I concur with the majority opinion.  \n          ______________________________ \n                                                            M. SCOTT WILLHITE, Commissioner","preview":"NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION CLAIM NO. H304343 DIANA COLEMAN, EMPLOYEE CLAIMANT YOUTH HOME, INC., SELF-INSURED, EMPLOYER RESPONDENT RISK MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, TPA RESPONDENT OPINION FILED FEBRUARY 11, 2025 Upon review before the FULL COMMISSION in Little Rock, Pula...","fetched_at":"2026-05-19T22:29:44.581Z","links":{"html":"/opinions/full_commission-H304343-2025-02-11","pdf":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Coleman_Diana_H304343_20250211.pdf","source_publisher":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/full-commission-opinions/"}}