Terrell v. Industrial Commission

HAIRE, Judge.

In this review by certiorari of an Industrial Commission award, the petitioning workman seeks to overturn the Commission’s refusal to hold a major stockholder of an uninsured corporate employer liable to the injured workman for workmen’s compensation benefits. 1 Petitioner advances several theories as to why the stockholder should be held liable for the corporate employer’s dereliction, the principal theory being based upon the failure of the corporation to file a certified copy of its articles of incorporation with the Maricopa County Recorder as required by statute. 2

The facts…