Arizona's Work Injury Firm
I recently tried to help a friend with some immigration issues and learned quite a bit about our country’s immigration problems. HOW SCREWED UP IS OUR IMMIGRATION POLICY? First, let me tell you about an experience I had on an airport shuttle a couple of years ago in Salt Lake City. I struck up a...
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Some of our most interesting cases have been those where the injuries were the results of fights or assaults at work. The general rule of whether or not these injuries are compensable is whether or not the subject matter of the fight was related to the work or was personal. This rule applies equally to...
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Occasionally we’ll have a client who lives in Arizona who is injured while working outside the state of Arizona. These injured workers are still entitled to benefits under Arizona law in several circumstances. First, if they were hired within the state, they are covered under Arizona law (A.R.S. 23-904(A)). Employees injured outside the state are...
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Many clients ask if the employer or insurance carrier is required to provide job retraining if their industrial injury prevents them from returning to the job they were performing at the time of their injury. The short answer is “no”. The long answer is that there are two other alternatives for obtaining what is commonly...
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The Industrial Commission of Arizona is a state administrative agency that oversees work injuries, occupational safety, labor rights, and several other functions related to labor. The Commission is led by five “commissioners” appointed by the governor to staggered five year terms. The Director of the ICA, currently Laura McGrory, is responsible for the day to...
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