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No Retroactive Suspension Of Worker Compensation In AZ

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Work, Workers' Compensation, Retroactivity. Location: Arizona.

The Supreme Court of Arizona, sitting En Banc, held that Arizona Revised
Statute § 23-1031, which authorizes the suspension of worker compensation
benefits to persons convicted of a crime and incarcerated, could not be
applied retroactively. The Supreme Court review consolidated two cases. In
the first, Guadalupe Aranda sustained a …

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