Lane v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona

OPINION

ECKERSTROM, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 In this statutory special action, petitioner Kelly Lane challenges the administrative law judge’s (ALJ) ruling that Lane’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits was noncompensable because his injury from a gunshot wound did not arise out of and occur in the course of his employment as a police officer. For the following reasons, we set aside the award.

¶ 2 The following facts are essentially undisputed. After his claim for workers’ compensation benefits was denied by the City, Lane requested a hearing before an ALJ. At the hearing, Lane, an officer for…