{"id":"full_commission-H403662-2025-04-30","awcc_number":"H403662","decision_date":"2025-04-30","opinion_type":"full_commission","claimant_name":"James Chapman","employer_name":"White River Health System, Inc","title":"CHAPMAN VS. WHITE RIVER HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. AWCC# H403662 April 30, 2025","outcome":"affirmed","outcome_keywords":["affirmed:3","granted:1"],"injury_keywords":[],"pdf_url":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Chapman_James_H403662_20250430.pdf","source_index_url":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/full-commission-opinions/","filename":"Chapman_James_H403662_20250430.pdf","text_length":2819,"full_text":"NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION \n \nBEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION \n \nCLAIM NO. H403662 \n \nJAMES L. CHAPMAN, EMPLOYEE    CLAIMANT \n \nWHITE RIVER HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.,  \nEMPLOYER                                                                           RESPONDENT \n \nSI ADMINISTRATOR/RISK MANAGEMENT \nRESOURCES, CARRIER/TPA                                              RESPONDENT \n \n \nOPINION FILED APRIL  30, 2025 \n \nUpon review before the FULL COMMISSION in Little Rock, Pulaski County, \nArkansas. \n \nClaimant appeared pro se \n \nRespondents represented by the HONORABLE KENNETH “CASEY” P.  \nCASTLEBERRY, Attorney at 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 January 15, 2025. In said order, the Administrative Law Judge \nmade the following findings of fact and conclusions of law: \n1. The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission \nhas jurisdiction over this claim. \n  \n2. That an employer/employee/carrier relationship existed \non May 23, 2024, when the claimant sustained a \ncompensable injury to his right ring finger which the \nrespondents accepted as medical only.  \n \n\nChapman-H403662    2  \n \n \n3. The claimant earned an average hourly wage of $13.39 \nand worked a forty (40) hour week.  \n \n4. The respondents have paid the sum of $1,128.55 in \nmedical expenses.  \n \n5. That the claimant has failed to satisfy the required \nburden of proof to prove by a preponderance of the \nevidence that additional medical treatment is \nreasonable and necessary for the compensable ring \nfinger wound.  \n \n6. That the claimant has failed to satisfy the required \nburden of proof to prove by a preponderance of the \nevidence that he is entitled to temporary total disability \nfrom May 25, 2024, to a date to be determined. \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 January 15, 2025 decision of the \nAdministrative Law Judge, including all findings and conclusions therein, as \nthe decision of the Full Commission on appeal.  \n  \n  \n\nChapman-H403662    3  \n \n \n IT IS SO ORDERED. \n    ___________________________________ \n    SCOTTY DALE DOUTHIT, Chairman \n \n \n    ___________________________________ \n    M. SCOTT WILLHITE, Commissioner \n \n     \n    ___________________________________ \n    MICHAEL R. MAYTON, Commissioner","preview":"NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION CLAIM NO. H403662 JAMES L. CHAPMAN, EMPLOYEE CLAIMANT WHITE RIVER HEALTH SYSTEM, INC., EMPLOYER RESPONDENT SI ADMINISTRATOR/RISK MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, CARRIER/TPA RESPONDENT OPINION FILED APRIL 30, 2025 Upon review before the FULL COMMI...","fetched_at":"2026-05-19T22:29:44.441Z","links":{"html":"/opinions/full_commission-H403662-2025-04-30","pdf":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Chapman_James_H403662_20250430.pdf","source_publisher":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/full-commission-opinions/"}}