Ark. Gov. Mike Beebe has reappointed Philip Alan Hood to the state Worker’s Compensation Commission.
Beebe on Friday returned Hood to the panel for a six-year term as the labor representative.
The three-member commission administers the state’s workers’ compensation laws for employees, employers, medical providers and other stakeholders.
Hood is an executive board member of the Arkansas AFL-CIO.
The committee chairman is A. Watson Bell and the third member is Karen McKinney.
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