Posts Tagged ‘Colorado attorney’
Can Workers Compensation Pay My Family Member for Taking Care of Me While in Treatment?
Can Workers Compensation Pay My Family Member for Taking Care of Me While in Treatment? I recently received this question from a client who was recovering from surgery: Can workers compensation pay my family member for taking care of me while in treatment? The only answer I could offer him (or to anyone for that…
Read MoreTop Work Related Injuries In The Colorado Hospitality Industry
In Colorado, tourism is a huge deal and very significant to the success of our economic landscape. Our region relies heavily on service and hospitality workers to keep the tourism industry alive and thriving. Just like any other job, this type of work comes with risk of injury although the injuries in this field…
Read MoreFive Things To Reduce Your Chance Of Injury While Driving On The Job
For even the most experienced Colorado driver, winter weather brings a whole new set of risks to everyone behind the wheel. Each year, over 1,300 deaths occur, and more than 116,000 people are injured on snowy, slushy, or icy pavement. Kaplan Morrell Law knows just how dangerous the combination of winter weather and driving can…
Read MoreTaxes and Your Disability Benefits Part I: Workers’ Compensation
With April quickly approaching, every responsible adult is worried about what to do about his or her taxes. While most of the tax filing process is much simpler than we are led to believe, there are certain questionable areas. For example, most income needs to be taxed. What about the Workers’ Compensation benefits? What portion…
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 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…
Read MoreRoggen Elevator Employee Dies in a Workplace Accident
On Wednesday, a 28-year old man from Commerce City died performing his work duties at Roggen Elevator, as reported by the Weld County Coroner’s Office on Thursday. The victim of the workplace accident was known as Andres Ramirez, told by Chris Robillard, the coroner’s office investigator. An autopsy was completed on Thursday which revealed that…
Read MoreWorkers’ Comp Claims by the numbers…
Insurance Companies and Risk Managers claim workers will fraudulently file workers’ compensation claims during tough economic times, the truth, at least in Colorado is that lost-time and Settled Claims dropped from $24,044 in 2008 to 21,932 in 2009. In 2010 such claims stayed about the same, dropping to 21,329. Average lost time (both median and…
Read MoreWrongfully Denied: How Insurance Companies Look Out for Themselves
When people are injured on the job, the standard operating procedure is to: 1- Have the injured worker report the accident to their employer 2- The employer must then fill out an accident report 3- The employer then sends the injured worker for medical treatment. When an employer files a workers’ compensation claim with the…
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