Parson v. Arkansas Methodist Hospital

This is the second appeal in this workers compensation case. In the first appeal, we reversed and remanded the Commissions decision denying compensability for a mental injury, and instructed the Commission to address appellant Linda Parsons claim that she suffered a closed-head physical injury. See Parson v. Arkansas Methodist Hospital, CA06-1223 (June 20, 2007). In that opinion, we advised the Commission to analyze the claim under Wentz v. Service Master, 75 Ark. App. 296, 57 S.W.3d 753 (2001), and Watson v. Tayco, Inc., 79 Ark. App. 250, 86 S.W.3d 18 (2002). On remand, the Commission found that Ms. Parson failed to establish a compensable physical injury to her brain, and Ms. Parson again appeals. In this appeal, Ms. Parson argues that the Commission erred in failing to find that she sustained a physical injury to her brain, and erred in failing to award related medical benefits as well as benefits for a permanent impairment and permanent partial wage-loss disability. We affirm.