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CAUTION TO CLAIMANTS ON WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SETTLEMENTS IN ARIZONA By Attorney Dennis Kurth Arizona’s Work Injury Firm The Industrial Commission was given jurisdiction to approve settlements of workers’ compensation cases by virtue of a Supreme Court case in 1986[1]followed by the adoption in 1987 of a set of administrative rules for ALJ’s to follow in...
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CHANGE OF JUDGE AT THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION By Attorney Dennis Kurth Arizona’s Work Injury Firm Among workers’ compensation practitioners, the ALJ assigned to one’s case has always been an important factor in the attorney’s strategy and expectations. Over time, not even a long time, most ALJ’s tend, fairly or not, to get labeled as either...
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Social Security Disability and Early Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease in Arizona By Attorney Nicholas Wearne Arizona’s Work Injury Firm There are an estimated 5.4 million in the United States living with Alzheimer’s disease. The disease is associated with old age but there are an unfortunate few who are affected by the disease before the age...
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Facet Mediated Pain & the ODG in AZ Workers’ Compensation By Founding Partner/Attorney Chad Snow Arizona’s Work Injury Firm More and more, spine specialists are pointing to the facet joints as possible pain generators in low back injuries. The facet joints are the joints in your spine that make your back flexible and able to...
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Worker’s Comp Cases Are Like Fingerprints, No Two Are the Same… By Attorney Erica Gonzalez-Melendez Arizona’s Work Injury Firm Occasionally I get the question from a client: Why did their neighbor’s cousin, who barely had a back injury, recover triple figures in his case but they, who lost a finger, get so much less in...
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