Sandoval v. Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District

How courts have described this case

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• action by employee against self-insured employer for breach of fiduciary duty, intentional infliction of mental suffering based upon wrongful refusal to pay benefits barred by exclusivity provision
• exclusive jurisdiction of Industrial Commission bars common law action against self-insured employer for wrongful denial of benefits
• commission properly resolves all controversies arising out of the processing of injured workers’ claims for benefits
• regardless of intentional or negligent manner in which insurer failed to provide worker with benefit due, compensation law provides exclusive remedy for alleged tort where essence of claim is deprivation of benefits
• act provides procedures in event of failure to provide benefits
• “[Workers’] Compensation law provides the exclusive remedy for review of any administrative decision made by a carrier ... in which the basic contention of the claimant is that [she] has been wrongfully deprived of benefits[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).