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  "name": "Virginia LESLIE v. SANYO MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, et al.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Leslie v. Sanyo Manufacturing Corp.",
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    "judges": [
      "Cracraft, C.J., and Mayfield, J., agree."
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      "Virginia LESLIE v. SANYO MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, et al"
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      {
        "text": "Tom Glaze, Judge.\nIn this Workers\u2019 Compensation case, the primary issue is whether the appellant is entitled to receive total disability benefits for a period of time following the end of her healing period and during which she was unable to work because the appellee employer could not provide her a job within the restrictions and limitations placed upon her by her physician. We affirm.\nAppellant suffered a compensable injury to her neck on October. 17, 1977. She received certain temporary total disability benefits afterwards but part of those was disallowed by the Commission on September 20, 1982, and neither party appealed that determination. Before the Commission\u2019s first decision was rendered, appellant entered another healing period, which undisputedly commenced after April 15, 1981, and ended on June 8, 1981. Appellee paid appellant temporary total disability benefits for this new period; no one contests these benefits in this appeal.\nIn this appeal, appellant contends she is entitled to current total disability benefits between June 8, 1981, and January 3, 1983, the period she was unable to work because her physician had restricted her to lifting not more than twenty-five pounds, and because during this period, appel-lee had no job for appellant. Appellant also asserts that she sought employment elsewhere without success. She argues that under the circumstances of her case and because she made reasonable efforts to seek other employment during this period, she is entitled to total disability benefits from June 8, 1981, through January 3, 1983, after which a job within her restrictions became available with the appellee.\nAppellee argues the appellant offered no evidence that she was \u201cincapacitated\u201d after June 8, 1981, from earning wages in some employment or that her loss of earnings resulted from \u201cincapacity\u201d as required by the statutory definition of disability. In other words, appellee contends the proof shows that appellent\u2019s lack of earnings resulted from unavailability of work and not from incapacity to earn. We must agree.\nAppellant testified that when her physician released her on June 8,1981, appellee had nothing for her to do although she contacted appellee several times. She stated that the Employment Security Division could not find her work and when she checked with Wal-Mart, Campbell\u2019s Outlet and Air-Therm, those businesses had no jobs and were not accepting applications. In January, 1983, appellant returned to work for appellee, performing work within her twenty-five-pound lifting restriction, but she indicated that she was not sure whether such work was previously available at the appellee\u2019s.\nAppellant concedes that she does not fall within the odd-lot category. Under the odd-lot doctrine, total disability may be found in the case of workers who, while not altogether incapacitated from work, are so handicapped that they will not be employed regularly in any well-known branch of the labor market. In M. M. Cohn v. Haile, 267 Ark. 734, 589 S.W.2d 600 (Ark. App. 1979), our Court, quoting from Larson, Workmen\u2019s Compensation Law, stated:\nIf the evidence of degree of obvious physical impairment, coupled with other factors such as claimant\u2019s mental capacity, education, training, or age, places claimant prima facie in the odd-lot category, the burden should be on the employer to show that some kind of suitable work is regularly and continuously available to the claimant. [2 Larson. . . \u00a7 57.61, pp. 10-136 and 10-137].\nBecause appellant undisputedly fails to come within the odd-lot category, the burden remains hers to show that she is incapacitated because of her injury to earn, in the same or any other employment, the wages she was receiving at the time of the injury. See Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 81-1302(e) (Repl. 1976); Cf. Arkansas State Highway Department v. Breshears, 272 Ark. 244, 613 S.W.2d 392 (1981). The Commission, adopting the administrative law j udge\u2019s opinion, found that appellant was not incapacitated because of injury from earning wages, but rather she was merely unable to find employment. In fact, appellant\u2019s own testimony indicates, according to the contacts she made with other employers, that those employers would not have hired her even if she had been free from any physical restrictions. Based upon the record before us, we cannot conclude the Commission erred or that its decision was not based upon substantial evidence. Appellant simply failed to show she is entitled to total disability benefits after June 8, 1981.\nIn conclusion, we add that the appellant is not precluded from seeking permanent partial disability benefits\u2014 a fact acknowledged by the appellee. Apparently, the appellee paid the appellant benefits based upon a ten percent anatomical rating given by her physician; but the record reflects that the Commission has not considered nor has appellant sought any additional permanent partial benefits to which she may be entitled. This decision merely affirms the Commission\u2019s holding that the evidence fails to show appellant has any entitlement to total disability payments after her healing period.\nAffirmed.\nCracraft, C.J., and Mayfield, J., agree.\nActually, appellee paid these benefits until sometime in August, 1981, after which it terminated payments.",
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        "author": "Tom Glaze, Judge."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Youngdahl ir Larrison, by: James H. Larrison, Jr., for appellant.",
      "Daggett, VanDover, Donovan if Cahoon, by: Robert J. Donovan, for appellees."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Virginia LESLIE v. SANYO MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, et al\nCA 84-189\n679 S.W.2d 222\nCourt of Appeals of Arkansas Division I\nOpinion delivered November 21, 1984\nYoungdahl ir Larrison, by: James H. Larrison, Jr., for appellant.\nDaggett, VanDover, Donovan if Cahoon, by: Robert J. Donovan, for appellees."
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