While news stories about Hurricane Dorian continue to make the headlines across the country, Arizona is unlikely ever to experience such an event. Arizona has its own set of weather problems that can impact its residents in so many ways, most unpleasantly. Types of Rough Arizona...
There are only a few exceptions where Arizona employers do not have to provide workers' compensation to those doing a job for employers. Any employer who hires an independent contractor to do a certain job for them does not have to buy insurance for that...
An Oklahoma judge decided in a recent case that a large pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson, should take responsibility for causing a mass patient opioid addiction, based on misleading promotions and marketing practices by the company. Opioid addiction which has, in some cases, led to...
A recent study showed that states providing access to legalized recreational marijuana had a significant decline in opioid-related deaths, up to 35 percent from previous years when none was available. To be more precise about the statistics, it is those states who provide access to...
There are very few situations in which you would want to sue your employer if you were injured on the job. As employers provide workers’ compensation to all employees, regardless of fault in Arizona, you would not have a case against the employer. But there...
When a worker becomes ill or has a workplace accident, one of the major factors, aside from getting the medical claim benefits approved, is evaluating the environment the worker lives and works in. First, the recovering worker must have access to healthy food that aids...
Workers' compensation pays for injuries and illnesses that occur on the job. But you can be injured in a car accident or come down with some illness that puts you out of work, which is not related to work. If either of these events happens...
Arizona’s Liability Law: A.R.S. Title 23. Labor § 23-1023 Not all jobs take place on the employer’s worksite. Some businesses require that employees go to another site to do their work, such as window washers, or a construction site of another employer. Some situations require that...
Traffic or transportation accidents are the most common injuries that any company faces, as there are numerous factors that can go wrong, no matter how many precautions are taken. The general rule when a transportation accident occurs, and a worker is injured, the employer is...
The Arizona Telemedicine Council (ATC) Telemedicine has become a very important service to the public who need help with medical issues but have limited direct access to doctors and hospitals because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Arizona Telemedicine Council (ATC) began in 1996 under legislation initiated...
