Regnier v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona

OPINION

FROEB, Judge.

The issue in this special action review of an Industrial Commission award is whether the claimant is entitled to payment for medical procedures that could allow him to father children. Because the administrative law judge’s determination was based, in part, upon erroneous conclusions of law, we set aside the award denying benefits.

On October 2, 1980, claimant Stephen Regnier, a test car driver for Ford Motor Company (respondent), was injured while at work. As a result of the industrial incident, claimant is a quadriplegic and is unable to have an erection and/or to…