Putz v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona

OPINION

HALL, Judge.

¶ 1 In this special action, petitioner employer Mike and Pat Putz, husband and wife, dba Northern Construction, request that we set aside an Industrial Commission award for compensable claim. Northern Construction asserts that the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) erred in determining that it was an employer subject to Arizona’s Workers’ Compensation Act (“Act”), Ariz.Rev.Stat. (“A.R.S.”) §§ 23-901 through -1091. Because we conclude that Northern Construction does not “regularly employ” any workers, see A.R.S. § 23-902(A) (1996), and is therefore not an employer covered by…