{"id":"full_commission-H404336-2025-07-02","awcc_number":"H404336","decision_date":"2025-07-02","opinion_type":"full_commission","claimant_name":"Nancy Valencia","employer_name":"Washington Regional Medical Center","title":"VALENCIA VS. WASHINGTON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AWCC# H404336 July 02, 2025","outcome":"denied","outcome_keywords":["affirmed:3","granted:3","denied:4"],"injury_keywords":["back"],"pdf_url":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Valencia_Nancy_H404336_20250702.pdf","source_index_url":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/full-commission-opinions/","filename":"Valencia_Nancy_H404336_20250702.pdf","text_length":2884,"full_text":"NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION \n \nBEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION \n \nCLAIM NO. H404336 \n \nNANCY VALENCIA, EMPLOYEE    CLAIMANT \n \nWASHINGTON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER,  \nEMPLOYER                                                                           RESPONDENT \n \nRISK MANAGEMENT RESOURCES,  \nCARRIER                                                                               RESPONDENT \n \nOPINION FILED July 2, 2025 \n \nUpon review before the FULL COMMISSION in Little Rock, Pulaski County, \nArkansas. \n \nClaimant represented by the HONORABLE EVELYN E. BROOKS, Attorney \nat Law, Fayetteville, 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 February 10, 2025. In said order, the Administrative Law Judge \nmade the following findings of fact and conclusions of law: \n1. The stipulations agreed to by the parties at the pre-\nhearing conference conducted on September 16, 2024, \nand contained in a Pre-hearing Order filed September \n17, 2024, are hereby accepted as fact.  \n \n2. The claimant has failed to prove by a preponderance of \nthe evidence that she sustained a compensable injury \nto her low back on or about June 21, 2024.  \n \n\nValencia-H404336          2  \n \n \n3. The claimant has failed to prove by a preponderance of \nthe evidence that she is entitled to medical treatment.  \n \n4. The claimant has failed to prove by a preponderance of \nthe evidence that she is entitled to temporary total \ndisability benefits.  \n \n5. The claimant has failed to prove by a preponderance of \nthe evidence that her attorney is entitled to an \nattorney’s fee in this matter.  \n \n6. The respondent’s lack of notice defense is moot.  \n \n7. The issue of the claimant’s weekly compensation rates \nis moot. \n \n We have carefully conducted a de novo review of the entire record \nherein, and it is our opinion that 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 that the findings of fact made by the Administrative Law \nJudge are correct and they are, therefore, adopted by the Full Commission.  \n Therefore, we affirm and adopt the February 10, 2025 decision of the \nAdministrative Law Judge, including all findings and conclusions therein, as \nthe decision of the Full Commission on appeal.  \n  \n\nValencia-H404336          3  \n \n \n IT IS SO ORDERED. \n    ___________________________________ \n    SCOTTY DALE DOUTHIT, Chairman \n \n    ___________________________________ \n    M. SCOTT WILLHITE, Commissioner \n \n    ___________________________________ \n    MICHAEL R. MAYTON, Commissioner","preview":"NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE THE ARKANSAS WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION CLAIM NO. H404336 NANCY VALENCIA, EMPLOYEE CLAIMANT WASHINGTON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, EMPLOYER RESPONDENT RISK MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, CARRIER RESPONDENT OPINION FILED July 2, 2025 Upon review before the FULL COMMISSION in Little Rock, ...","fetched_at":"2026-05-19T22:29:44.108Z","links":{"html":"/opinions/full_commission-H404336-2025-07-02","pdf":"https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Valencia_Nancy_H404336_20250702.pdf","source_publisher":"https://labor.arkansas.gov/workers-comp/awcc-opinions/full-commission-opinions/"}}