13.2.3.2 Arizona Law Applied to In-State Injuries

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

. The usual workers’ compensation claim is filed in the state in which the injury or death took place, and that state applies its law. In most cases, the other contacts are primarily, if not completely, from that jurisdiction, and the employer has complied with that state’s workers’ compensation insurance requirements. The Four Corners case illustrates, however, that contacts can be spread among states and that the state in which the injury or death occurred may have had little or nothing else to do with...