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title: "COVID-19 Legal Update: Arizona"
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# COVID-19 Legal Update: Arizona

## COVID-19 Legal Update: ARIZONA

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### Workers' Compensation Administrative board/ commission

[Industrial Commission](https://www.azica.gov/)

 

### How does the state define an occupational disease?

23-901. (13)(c) An occupational disease that is due to causes and conditions characteristic of and peculiar to a particular trade, occupation, process, or employment, and not the ordinary diseases to which the general public is exposed, and subject to section 23-901.01 or, for heart-related, perivascular, or pulmonary cases, section 23-1105.

 

### COVid-19 Specific Laws, agency declarations/ press releases, or enacted regulation?

[Updates to the 2019/2020 Fee Schedule regarding E-Services, Virtual Check-ins & COVID-19 Testing](https://www.azica.gov/sites/default/files/media/2019-2020%20Fee%20Schedule%20Update%203-26-20%20%28FINAL%29.pdf)  
 March 26, 2020

[Governor Ducey Issues Workers' Compensation Executive Order](https://www.azica.gov/sites/default/files/media/eo_2020-29_increased_telemedicine-workers_comp.pdf)  
 April 14, 2020

[Industrial Commission Policy Statement on Work Comp COVID-19 Claims](https://www.azica.gov/sites/default/files/SPS%20-COVID-19%20FINAL.pdf)  
 May 14, 2020

 

### Court Closures & Modified Call

[Statewide Update](https://azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/infectious-disease-epidemiology/index.php#novel-coronavirus-home)

 

### Is the administrative court system closed or open?

[Open - but recommends to continue to do business remotely if possible](https://www.azica.gov/sites/default/files/Notice%20of%20Reopening%20of%20Buildings%20PDF.pdf)

 

### Does this state have a shelter-in-place in order?

No - [order](https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/eo_2020-33_0.pdf) was 3/31/20 to 5/15/20; phased in [reopening](https://azgovernor.gov/governor/news/2020/04/governor-ducey-announces-updated-guidance-arizonans-businesses) began 5/4/20.

 

### ANY STATE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE ON DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT, OR HEALTH BENEFITS FOR COVID-19? 

[Unemployment](https://des.az.gov/services/coronavirus).

 

Last Updated: 2/1/2021

|          | [<< Gallagher Bassett COVID-19 Resource Center](https://links.gallagherbassett.com/en-us/covid-19-resource-center?hsLang=en-us) [<< Contact us with your COVID-19 Questions](http://news.gallagherbassett.com/breakingnews-covid-19) This document compiles certain state laws and websites relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. State guidance and other government instruction have changed frequently. We thus may update this document over time. Please do not hesitate to contact your account manager, resolution manager, or your other preferred contact at Gallagher Bassett with any questions. Although we have gathered information relevant to COVID-19 and its impact on workers' compensation claims and your businesses, this is not legal advice, it does not include all pertinent information, nor should it be the basis for legal, claim, benefit, safety, or human resource-related decisions. If you would like guidance on legal issues arising from COVID-19, including whether a COVID-19 related claim is compensable under a specific state’s laws, please seek advice from legal counsel with expertise in the relevant subject areas and state laws. For Gallagher Bassett clients, if you have reported a workers’ compensation claim, then your resolution manager can assist. A Further Note on the Statutes, Definitions, Cases, and Websites Cited in this Document. State law controls if a worker is entitled or not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. Each state can approach this question differently, and the relevant statutes, standards of proof, regulating agencies, court precedent, and other aspects of a workers’ compensation claim vary between jurisdictions. As a general principle, state workers’ compensation laws provide medical and wage loss benefits to workers who suffer bodily injury due to an accident, or bodily injury due to an occupational disease. The relevant bodily injury must arise out of and occur in the course of employment. This document primarily compiles state definitions of “occupational disease.” With respect to diseases for which the employee may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the disease typically must arise from particular conditions of employment that make contracting the disease more likely than in the general population, or otherwise there must be a sufficient connection between a disease and workplace. Please consult the relevant state’s workers’ compensation act for the specific language applicable to an “occupational disease” claim. |          |
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