Drew v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

JOHNSEN, Judge.

¶ 1 This is a special action review of an award by the Industrial Commission of Arizona denying a claimant’s request for reimbursement of expenses he incurred traveling to receive out-of-town medical treatment to which he was entitled under Arizona’s workers’ compensation law. We affirm the Commission’s rejection of the claim as untimely for failure to comply with the 24-month deadline in Arizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S.”) section 23-1062.01(0) (West 2013).1

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶ 2 Drew, who lives in Prescott, was injured at work in June 1995 and was diagnosed…