The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed a Workers' Compensation Commission decision awarding a fee to an injured worker's attorney, finding that the employer had controverted the compensability of an employee's back injury. Though the employer voluntarily paid temporary total disability benefits when the employee had surgery, the appellate court explained that Gregory Roberson still had to litigate compensability. A maxim in Arkansas workers' compensation law is that when the commission finds a case has been…  Read more Â»