Name of Organization: Arkansas Worker's Compensation Commission

Address:

324 South Spring Street

P.O. Box 950

Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-0950

Telephone: 1-501-682-3930 / 1-800-622-4472

Legal Advisor Direct: 1-800-250-2511

Arkansas Relay System TDD: 1-800-285-1131

Email contacts: http://www.awcc.state.ar.us/emailadd.html

Description: 

The Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission (AWCC) and the laws it administers were created effective December 5, 1940. Workers' compensation insurance is directed to the moral, social and economic benefits of protecting employers, employees, and their dependents from financial burdens imposed by job-related injury and disease. Arkansas law provides that employers in categories not specifically exempted must provide insurance coverage for employee costs incurred as a result of job-related accidents and disease.

The AWCC is not an insurance company. Rather, it enforces the workers' compensation laws to ensure that all covered employers secure insurance coverage from commercial carriers or through self-insurance programs. In addition, the AWCC regulates workers' compensation awards to insure that benefit providers make correct and timely payments to eligible claimants.

The extent of disability and the fairness of total compensation can be an item of dispute among the parties involved. The AWCC, through its three Commissioners and a staff of Administrative Law Judges, adjudicates disputed workers' compensation cases with binding decisions that can be appealed to the Arkansas Court of Appeals and the Arkansas Supreme Court.

Page Last Updated:  1/14/26