SLOVER MASONRY, INC. v. INDUS. COM'N

No. CV-87-0318-PR.

158 Ariz. 131 (1988)

761 P.2d 1035

SLOVER MASONRY, INC., Petitioner Employer, State Compensation Fund, Petitioner Carrier, v. The INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF ARIZONA, Respondent, Thaddeus J. Williamson, Respondent Employee.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

September 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

State Compensation Fund by Robert K. Park, Chief Counsel and Teri A. Thomson-Taylor, Phoenix, for petitioner employer and petitioner carrier.

Dennis P. Kavanaugh, Chief Counsel Industrial Com'n of Arizona, Phoenix, for respondent.

Taylor & Schaar by Don F. Schaar, Phoenix, for respondent employee.


FELDMAN, Vice Chief Justice.

Claimant seeks review of a court of appeals' opinion denying his workers' compensation award. The court vacated the award because the administrative law judge (ALJ) did not strictly adhere to the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (the AMA Guides) when determining the percentage of claimant's permanent impairment. We must decide whether an administrative law judge is bound to follow the...

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