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3 Ways Marijuana Can Affect Your Colorado Worker’s Compensation Claim
The state of Colorado was one of the first states to legalize marijuana. First, the state allowed it for medical use. Eventually, along with the state of Washington, Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Now, with these policies in place, we are observing more and more people utilizing marijuana both recreationally and medically.…
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 MoreFive Ways You Get Screwed In Your Work Injury – And Don’t Even Know It
Because we offer free consultations, we meet with injured workers every week. After twenty-one years of doing this, I am struck by how often these hard-working men and women mistakenly think they are dealing with people who are trying to be fair and honest. The reality is that almost everyone involved with a work related…
Read MoreTemporary/Seasonal Employment and Workers Compensation in Colorado
Generally, a seasonal/temporary worker is only employed on certain seasons. A company may opt to hire extra people if they think that the workload is more than usual, but only temporarily, for a specific duration. Retail stores, farms, and ski resorts typically hire workers for temporary/seasonal work. In Colorado, more agricultural workers are employed to…
Read MoreYour Employer Cannot Punish You for Filing for Workers’ Compensation—And Here’s Why
Part of our work culture in this country is independent. We’re hesitant at best to raise questions about the safety standards at our jobs or point fingers when common practices are clearly dangerous. No one wants to lose his or her job because he or she is seen as someone who makes waves against common…
Read MoreWhat Does it Mean? Lower Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates for 2016
At the end of the year, many insurance companies will attempt to settle or reduce the number of open claims they have. Workers’ compensation is no different, creating an opportunity for Denver workers’ compensation lawyers, Greeley workers’ compensation attorneys, and especially their injured clients. These clients often work for years at their jobs and suffer…
Read MoreOil Gauging Practice as a Health-damaging Working Condition
There was a controversial case here in Colorado just recently. A judge ruled in favor of a widow whose husband died because of unfavorable working conditions. Jim Freemyer, an oil-field worker, died in 2014 after inhaling toxic chemicals in a low-oxygen atmosphere at the Gaddis oil tank site. What he did was most commonly known…
Read MorePainters and Safety: How One Man’s Experience can be Indicative of the Industry
Juan Deras, a painter at Craftsman Painting and Decorators Inc., asked his boss for a respirator mask to protect him from chemicals he breathes in at work in February. His boss, Betty Henry, refused to provide the mask. Deras complained and was fired. He was told it isn’t Craftsman Painting and Decorators’ job to provide…
Read MoreCompensation for Miners in the Four Corners Region
Cibola General Hospital’s cardio-pulminary department is busy this season testing minors for RECA. Most of the requests are for electrocardiographs and testing of miners for federal Radiation Exposure eligibility. About 10 miners per week come in for testing, all of which live in New Mexico. Denver disability lawyers and Denver disability attorneys fight for compensation…
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…
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