Naslund v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF ARIZ.

OPINION

GEMMILL, Judge.

¶ 1 Arizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S.”) section 23-1044(A) (Supp.2004) was amended in 1999 to require that “fifty per cent of retirement and pension benefits received from the insured or self-insured employer during the period of temporary partial disability” be considered as “wages able to be earned,” thereby reducing temporary partial disability compensation benefits owed to the workers’ compensation claimant. 1999 Ariz. Sess. Laws, ch. 331, § 6. In 1925, the voters of Arizona enacted Article 18, Section 8, of the Arizona Constitution, which states in pertinent part…