Cox v. Advoni

Judge Harold R. Banke.

This workers’ compensation case arose after Deborah Lee Cox fractured her ankle while moving a carpet in the course of her employment at Travel Host Inn, owned by Bagwan Advoni. After an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) awarded Cox total disability benefits and an appellate panel affirmed, the superior court summarily reversed. We granted Cox’s application for discretionary appeal to consider her challenge to the superior court’s reversal of her award.

The ALJ’s award was premised on findings that (1) Cox was an employee of Travel Host Inn; (2) her injury arose in the…