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Can QuickTrip Clerk Secure Benefits for Fainting Spell that Led to Traumatic Brain Injury? 
Can QuickTrip Clerk Secure Benefits for Fainting Spell that Led to Traumatic Brain Injury? 

Phoenix, AZ -- (WorkersCompensation.com) Usually, a worker cannot secure workers’ compensation benefits for a fall at work that arises from a condition personal to himself, such as syncope (fainting) unrelated to any work condition. But […]
Do You Know the Rule? Ariz. Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem for Minor or Incapacitated Claimant
Do You Know the Rule? Ariz. Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem for Minor or Incapacitated Claimant

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Arizona, when it appears that a workers' compensation claimant is a minor or incapacitated person, the commission may appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the best interests of the […]
Glossary Check: Ariz. ‘Risk’ Categories
Glossary Check: Ariz. ‘Risk’ Categories

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- For those who read our recent summary on the case of a worker in Arizona who died from getting COVID on the job, a part of the court's analysis dealt with […]
Ariz. Worker’s Death from COVID Ruled to Have Arisen from Job
Ariz. Worker’s Death from COVID Ruled to Have Arisen from Job

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- While much of life and work has returned to what it looked like before 2020, there will always be reminders of how severe the pandemic was at its height. For example, […]
Do You Know the Rule? Ariz’s Presumption of Occupational Disease for Firefighters
Do You Know the Rule? Ariz’s Presumption of Occupational Disease for Firefighters

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Beginning in 2001, the Arizona Legislature made it easier for firefighters (and fire investigators) seeking workers’ compensation to show that their job as a firefighter caused their cancer. Presumption of Occupational […]
Walmart Night-stocker Can’t Show Chest Pain Came from Moving 2,000-lb Pallet
Walmart Night-stocker Can’t Show Chest Pain Came from Moving 2,000-lb Pallet

Chandler, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employers should put forth solid medical evidence and their best arguments supporting that evidence during a workers’ compensation hearing. As a case involving a Walmart night stocker shows, if there are […]
Testimony that Landscaper Fabricated Injury Clips Workers’ Comp Claim 
Testimony that Landscaper Fabricated Injury Clips Workers’ Comp Claim 

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As long as there is evidence to support an ALJ’s denial of workers’ compensation benefits to an employee, a court is unlikely to overturn it.  That was the case in Cole […]
Not Making Argument Sooner Curbs Ariz. Trader Joe’s Worker’s Case
Not Making Argument Sooner Curbs Ariz. Trader Joe’s Worker’s Case

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- While not flashy or exciting, cases about procedural requirements can help show the way to a case that makes its way through court. Such was the case in Knutson v. Industrial […]