Archive for February 2015
Workplace Wellness Now Possible for Small Businesses, Too?
Worksite wellness programs are a great way to preemptively sidestep some of the more horrifying workplace injuries in jobs where workers rely on their health. Despite how physically demanding a job is, our Greeley workers’ compensation lawyers certainly agree that worksite wellness programs can help to prevent work injuries. A recent study in the Journal…
Read MoreUber and Lyft Revisited: Will The Applications Do Right By Their Drivers?
Driving request applications like Lyft and Uber may be forced to provide their drivers with workmen’s compensation insurance pending the decision of a couple of cases that have been being decided since 2013. Currently, Workers’ Compensation lawyers may have trouble arguing for insurance benefits to an injured driver because the drivers are technically considered independent…
Read MoreAn Insurance Adjuster’s Perspective On Being Injured At Work
And what he had to say about having Michael Kaplan as his Worker’s Compensation Attorney: I had the unfortunate circumstance of being injured at work, and the injury was such that the claim needed to be reopened and further treatment required after I had left that employer. Ironically, my current place of employment is a…
Read MoreNursing: Even Proper Transfer Technique Can Lead to Injury
Sunny Vespico, a 36-year-old nurse, was working at a Philadelphia hospital on March 31,2012 when she was required to lift a patient. This is not unusual for nurses like Vespico, who are taught proper technique for lifting and transferring patients as part of their training in medical and nursing schools. In spite of using proper…
Read MoreMedical Marijuana In The Workplace- 50 Shades Of Gray Area
Almost everyone in Colorado knows marijuana (and medical marijuana) is legal. An enormous question, however, is marijuana in the workplace. While recreational marijuana use, as with recreational alcohol or other intoxicants, is firmly in the prohibited category, where does medical marijuana fall? Denver workers’ compensation attorneys Kaplan & Morrell can attest if a worker is injured on…
Read MoreStarting so Bad (it’s great). (Caution Spoiler Alert)
For such a huge success, Breaking Bad followed the plot lines of the immortal morality plays like Macbeth: a good man with good intentions, progressively makes tiny self-rationilizing decisions down the path to hell. Most viewers, at least the one’s I talk with, get hooked on the money and the power without seeing this cautionary…
Read MoreCan Marijuana Drug Use Cause A Disability Claim To Be Denied In Colorado?
The use of marijuana for medical purposes has been made legal in 2000. Since then, patients and their caregivers were allowed to use the drug while being exempt from state criminal penalties. In relation to this, Amendment 20 was passed. It changed Colorado’s constitution by allowing patients and their caregivers to not only use marijuana…
Read MoreChronic Pain and Disability: How Colorado Laws Help Individuals Suffering from Chronic Pain
Work-related injuries can arise from different causes. There are injuries caused by accidents in the workplace such as a fall from scaffolding, machinery accident, or a vehicle mishap which occurred while driving a company vehicle. These injuries are called industrial accidents. Meanwhile, there are injuries caused by a continued performance of activities or exposure to…
Read More5 Things the Insurance Company Does Not Want You To Know About Workers’ Comp
Having represented thousands of injured workers in Colorado since 1997 there are few nagging little things that happen that make me roll my eyes when work injury employees come in and they say the adjuster told them one thing or another. Here are my top five things the adjuster doesn’t want you to know: (1)…
Read MoreWould’a, Should’a, Could’a Doesn’t Matter When it Comes to Health Insurance
When injured colorado workers lose their health insurance following a work injury, the conversion cost of that health insurance can be included in the employees average weekly wage. This way, you are compensated for loss of health insurance – a major and common benefit. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) cannot include it “so long as the…
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