Vexatious Litigants and Disqualifying Judges

WorkCompCentral reported recently that Arizona has introduced a bill to reform or reshape some aspects of its workers' compensation statute.  One of the changes would "would allow unrepresented injured workers to be declared vexatious litigants." Another would change the disqualification process for judges. The provisions of the bill are said to represent compromises "hammered out between employers and attorneys who represent injured workers." We have seen that compromise bills sometimes fare better in the legislative world of workers' compensation th...