Arizonaworkers' comp filing deadline
Claim must be filed within 1 year after the injury becomes manifest, or after the employee knows or should know there is a compensable injury (§23-1061(A))
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Notice to employer
Statute does not impose a fixed days-from-injury notice deadline on the employee; employee files a claim form (which functions as notice) within 1 year. Employer must notify ICA within 10 days of accident notice.
Filing with the state
Claim must be filed within 1 year after the injury becomes manifest, or after the employee knows or should know there is a compensable injury (§23-1061(A))
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Exceptions and tolling
Statute-of-limitations rules have many exceptions that can extend or pause the clock. The most common in Arizona:
Occupational disease — Discovery rule
Manifestation/discovery hybrid — clock runs from when injury becomes manifest or knowledge attaches.
Minor tolling
Statute tolls if 'employee or other party entitled to file the claim is insane or legally incompetent or incapacitated at the time the injury occurs or the right to compensation accrues or during the one-year period thereafter' (§23-1061)
Mental / disability tolling
Tolled per §23-1061 incapacity provision (insanity, legal incompetence, or incapacity)
Death claim deadline
Survivors filing for death benefits typically have 1 year from date of death. This calculator does not yet handle death claims; consult a lawyer for those.
Attribution
- Last verified
- May 4, 2026
- Editorial review
- Statute linked to primary source
- Primary source
- https://www.azleg.gov/ars/23/01061.htm