What Happens if You Get Injured During a Coffee Break?

What Happens if You Get Injured During a Coffee Break?

How does Colorado law handle injuries that happen during an employee’s coffee break? What Happens if You Get Injured During a Coffee Break? Since you’re not actively working at the time, is your injury still covered under workers’ compensation? The answer is YES...
Red Flags Adjusters Look for in Workers Comp Claims

Red Flags Adjusters Look for in Workers Comp Claims

To help our clients avoid problems rather than try to repair any damage later on down the road, Margaret, a former adjuster, shares the issues that are “red flags” from an adjuster’s point of view. Red Flags Adjusters Look for in Workers Comp Claims Late Reporting –...
Can You Claim Workers’ Compensation Benefits For PTSD?

Can You Claim Workers’ Compensation Benefits For PTSD?

 Can You Claim Workers’ Compensation Benefits for PTSD? With June being PTSD month, we recently took on that topic that can be quite confusing. We frequently handle cases with post-traumatic stress disorders in workers’ compensation injuries. As you could imagine, in...
What Happens If You Die at Work?

What Happens If You Die at Work?

What happens if you die at work? Sometimes, at Kaplan Morrell, Workers’ Compensation in Colorado can take a morbid turn because we have to deal with individuals who die at work—each of those cases kind of presents different issues. One of the weird things about...