Continental Casualty Co. v. Industrial Commission

STRUCKMEYER, Vice Chief Justice.

This matter was commenced as a special action to review an award of the Industrial Commission. The Court of Appeals in an opinion filed September 26, 1978, set the award of the Industrial Commission aside. We granted review. Opinion of the Court of Appeals, 122 Ariz. 312, 594 P.2d 1008 (1978), vacated. Award affirmed.

The respondent employee, Santos J. Lira, was injured in an industrial accident on December 10, 1974. He sustained a lower back injury, suffering an extrusion of the L-5 S-l disk. Medical testimony established that in October of 1975, Lira had…