Court ruling jeopardizes workplace safety, insurers say
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the Arizona state Supreme Court in David C. Grammatica v. Arizona Industrial Commission has invalidated what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to help provide drug and alcohol-free working environments in the state, according to Insurance Journal.
PCI Regional Vice President Sam Sorich noted that the court struck down the 1999 law that denied workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers who had either refused to take a drug or alcohol test or failed the test.