Posts Tagged ‘workers compensation attorney’
Five 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
Five 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…
Read MoreCatching Fries: What Exactly Is In The Course Of My Employment?
Greeley workers’ compensation lawyers and Denver workers’ compensation lawyers will tell you many states have a loose definition of what kinds of activities are conceivably within an employee’s job responsibilities. While workers can only receive benefits when they’re injured on the job in the course of their employment, different states have different definitions of “in…
Read MoreRoadside Manners: Work Zones and Tragedy
Almost everyone who drives to work knows the major annoyance that follows. Imagine you are driving to work along a familiar route when suddenly construction appears, almost as if from the pavement, and suddenly the commute that usually takes you twenty minutes takes thirty or more. Most working people who have to be at…
Read MoreMotion For ALJ Recusal Must Contain a Sworn Affidavit
One of the things that distinguish Workers’ Compensation Hearings is that we argue cases in front of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) instead of a jury. There are only a handful of ALJs so we tend to see the same ALJ multiple times. A pro se (unrepresented) claimant sought to recuse ALJ Michelle Jones based upon…
Read MoreDon’t Wait To Talk With Work Injury Lawyer In Colorado
Talking to a work injury lawyer in Colorado is 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 a…
Read MoreSocial Security Benefits To Go (Mostly) Paperless On March 1st
As we previously noted, The US Treasury Department will require Social Security benefit checks to be either direct deposited to a bank account or to a debit card as of March 1, 2013. If you are currently receiving some type of Social Security benefit by paper check, with a few exceptions, you will need to switch to an electronic…
Read MoreCan I Be Fired For Pretend Reasons When I Am Workers’ Compensation?
The brief answer is yes. However there are a number of things you can do to improve your options and rights. In general I advise clients to keep a journal so that when it comes time to talk about specifics you are prepared. Assume that your employer and co-employees will deny anything you claim they…
Read MoreDon’t Wait To Talk With A Lawyer
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 a metal bar hit him in the…
Read MoreThe Colorado Legislature Considers A Number Of Bills Affecting Workplace Rights
Unnoticed in the controversy over gun control and civil unions, the 2013 Colorado Legislature is also considering several bills affecting employment rights in the workplace: House Bill (HB) 1136 allows victims of discrimination at companies with fewer than 15 employees to receive compensatory and punitive damages up to $50,000.00 and to get their attorney’s fees…
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