Permanent Partial Disability – When you’re placed at Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI), one of the benefits you’re entitled to is called Permanent Partial Disability or Impairment Rating, and it’s theoretically designed to compensate you for your future wage...
While mining continues to be a lucrative industry that is booming with new opportunities, these gains have not come without some risk to Colorado Miners. Many of the problems affecting miners are a result of negligence on the part of the employer. Increased burdens in...
It’s free, it’s confidential, it’s doesn’t obligate you to anything…and it’s free. This morning I had the pleasure of talking with a young man and his wife about his work injury. We will call him Jaime. He was injured in early 2012 on a oil production platform when...
Work Injury Statistics: Some Interesting Numbers – The Division of Workers’ Compensation released its statistical analysis for work injuries in 2010, and a few interesting revelations popped out, according to the DOWC Website. Work Injury Statistics: Some...