Workers Compensation and Death – Injury Unrelated to Work – What happens to your benefits if you die during your Colorado work injury claim but it’s NOT due to your work injury? We discuss a few ways that an unrelated death might actually be related...
Taxes and Workers’ Compensation Benefits – W-2s, 1099s, and other tax documents will begin to arrive in mailboxes across the state as the time to file income tax returns in Colorado is nearing. At Kaplan Morell Law, we often receive an influx of questions...
There are 3 things that an insurance company has to prove when they accuse an injured worker of violating a safety rule after a work injury. Learn more about safety rules and workers’ compensation from Denver Workers’ Compensation Lawyer Michael Kaplan. If...
Can an Employee Injured on a Holiday Receive Workers’ Compensation Benefits? – Workers’ compensation is mandatory insurance that employers must provide for their employees to assist them when they are injured on the job or develop occupational disease. A Denver...
Workers’ Compensation covers all on-the-job injuries, except….sexual harassment …. even if the worker and the harasser met through their employment. This summer, the Industrial Claims Appeals Panel upheld an Administrative Law Judge’s decision that sexual harassment...