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If you’re injured on the job in Arizona, the presumptive period for which your wages should be set for workers’ comp benefits is the 30 days before the accident. When you are on workers’ comp benefits in Arizona, you receive…

Employers in Arizona are required to post notice to their employees that the employees have a right to reject workers’ compensation insurance coverage prior to an on-the-job accident. Typically, this notice needs to be posted in a common area such…

The Social Security Administration rules say that: “if an impairment can reasonably be remedied by treatment, it cannot serve as a basis for finding of disability.” What this means is if you have a medical condition that can be “cured”…

Substantial gainful activity is the ability to earn at least $1,090.00 per month in the open labor market across the United States. If someone’s unable to earn that amount of money in 2015 based on a disability, they may be…

The general rule is “no” you cannot. Essentially, in Arizona workers’ comp law, borrowing employers are immune from lawsuits even if their negligence causes the temporary worker’s injury. There is a narrow exception to this rule if the temporary worker…

The answer is “yes” as long as you’re traveling outside of the jurisdiction where you live. This means that you are forced to drive outside the city you live in to seek other medical treatment. If someone lives in Chandler,…

Under Arizona workers’ compensation law, any permanent disfigurement to an injured worker’s face, neck, or teeth is compensated as a scheduled disability. What this means is once a doctor or the Industrial Commission rates the Arizona injured worker for the…

In Arizona, if two workers’ compensation insurance carriers are fighting over liability for your claim, you may be able to receive a temporary benefit until an administrative law judge sorts out the dispute. We call this type of order a…

In some circumstances, Social Security will expedite disability claims if a claimant’s condition includes one of the compassionate allowances. Essentially, compassionate allowances are very serious conditions that require quick processing of disability cases. Many of the terminal type disabilities fell…

If I am injured at home falling down my own stairs after I have an accepted knee injury claim, is it covered under my Arizona Work Comp Claim? Under Arizona law, the answer to this question is most likely “yes.”…