Court Opinion

ID: 9595438
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:40:34.211106+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:06:16.698018
License: Public Domain

EUBANK, Judge
(dissenting):
I dissent from the opinion on the basis of my previous specially concurring opinion in Beasley v. Industrial Commission, 15 Ariz.App. 394, 489 P.2d 57 (1971), which was vacated by our Supreme Court in Beasley v. Industrial Commission, 108 Ariz. 391, 499 P.2d 106 (1972). Justice Lockwood, writing for a unanimous court, stated that the computation is always based on the employee’s average monthly wage “at the time of injury” and ruled that a minor’s compensation must be paid retroactively to the date of injury. That date is the base date in determining compensation and, in my opinion, the date of injury should be applied to both adults and minors alike for the reasons stated in Beasley, 15 Ariz.App. beginning at 397, and 489 P.2d beginning at 60.