When You Temporarily Cannot Work Your Regular Job After a workplace injury, depending on how serious it was, and whether you must wear a leg or arm cast, you may not be able to work the job you did before the accident happened. If there is...
Reasons Why You Might Need a Lump Sum Commutation When you are injured on the job and have filed your claim to receive workers’ compensation benefits, including medical payments, you might face problems with receiving those benefits for any number of reasons. Maybe a clerk misplaced...
When You Cannot Return to Your Previous Job Your on-the-job injury and surrounding circumstances should be carefully examined before deciding whether to retire or not. In most cases, you should not “officially” retire and start collecting pension plan benefits outright just because you know you cannot...
Signing Up for Death Benefits When You Start Work Whenever you start a job with a new Arizona employer, look for the paperwork where you can fill out who your dependents are, in case you pass away from a work-related injury. Once you do that, your...
When Your Workers’ Compensation Claim is Denied If your workers’ compensation claim is denied, do not be afraid to fight back. It is common that insurance companies to look for ways to not have to pay benefits. The first thing you need to do is file...
Workers’ Compensation Benefits While you are working for an Arizona employer, if you have an accident on the job and sustain injuries, you are covered by workers’ compensation benefits, including medical payments of your bills. These benefits continue for as long as you are under a...
What is the Special Fund of Arizona? The Special Fund of Arizona, which operates under the Industrial Commission of Arizona (ICA), oversees benefits for workers injured on the job while working for an employer who does not have workers’ compensation insurance coverage. An Arizona employer must...
Can I Leave the State While on Workers’ Compensation? Leaving Arizona for a Family Emergency If you are on workers’ compensation after being injured on the job, you could leave Arizona if an out-of-state family member suddenly became ill and is expected to pass away. However, if...
Defining the Arizona Independent Contractor The definition of an Arizona Independent Contractor is determined by how that person is hired to do a job for another person or a company, also known as the client. The contractor is hired to do a specific job that no...
Arizona’s Workers’ Compensation versus Personal Injury Case What is the difference between these two types of cases which seem similar? In Arizona, workers’ compensation rules are based on a “no fault” system while a personal injury case is based on an “at fault” injury. With workers’...
