Arizona Labor Codes 23-966

provisions of the workers' compensation law relating to the payment of compensation, medical benefits or the final orders of the commission, the claims for compensation shall be assigned by the commission to the state compensation fund, and the manager of the state compensation fund shall pay such compensation, benefits or amounts due. The state compensation fund shall have a claim against the insurance carrier or self-insured employer for the amount so paid to be recovered, together with costs, necessary expenses and a reasonable attorney's fee fixed by the court, and such recovery shall be made upon the bond and other assets of the carrier or self-insured employer filed under section 23-961.

B. The commission shall provide by regulation for the special award fund created by section *23-1065 to reimburse, on a periodic basis, the state compensation fund for any net loss, including reasonable administrative costs, it incurs under this section. The commission may increase the assessment established in section 23-1065 by not to exceed one-half of one per cent of such assessment in any one year to reimburse the state compensation fund for its net loss incurred under this section.