By Paul Giblin | The Republic | azcentral.com
Proposed legislation would keep bad-faith handling of workers’ comp case with Industrial Commission.
Opponents want to get cases in front of juries in Superior Court.
In recent years, increasing numbers of bad-faith workers’ comp cases have ended up in court.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul employee Shawntelle Allen was helping co-workers move some donations in January 2001.
Allen, who typically worked as the organization’s volunteer coordinator, drove a delivery truck to a Phoenix warehouse to pick up household goods to haul to a thrift store in Mesa.
At the warehouse, she stepped into the back of the truck to adjust tie-down straps as a co-worker tried to muscle a 650-pound refrigerator on a dolly from the loading dock into the truck.
Allen heard the dolly bang onto the back of the truck. Something sounded wrong, she said.
