State Compensation Fund v. Harris

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Judge.

This certiorari petition by the State Compensation Fund, the workmen’s compensation carrier, calls into question respondent Industrial Commission’s interpretation of what is now A.R.S. § 23-1065(A)(4). That provision was passed by the legislature in 1963, to encourage the hiring of handicapped persons by providing, in certain enumerated circumstances, that there be a sharing of compensation liability between the carrier and the Industrial Commission’s Special Fund established by A.R.S. § 23-1065 (A). 1

The underlying claim involves an employee who suffered from…