Vishinskas v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF ARIZONA

OPINION

CONTRERAS, Presiding Judge.

This is a special action review of a consolidated Industrial Commission award denying reopening of a 1981 claim but granting compensability of a 1983 claim. The issue on review is whether reopening as well as the compensability of the new injury claim should have been granted to avoid precluding subsequent reopening if the new injury proves to be merely a temporary aggravation of a previously undiscovered condition. Because the successive injury doctrine applies and application of this doctrine will not preclude reopening if the aggravation is temporary, we…