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In the first part of this post, we began discussing the issue of workers’ compensation for police officers and other frontline responders who experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after an especially violent event. If an officer is suffering from PTSD due to a violent incident that happened on the job, shouldn’t work comp be available…

Physical impairments are typically easier to see than mental ones. Indeed, an aversion to dealing with issues of mental health is a significant national problem in the U.S. The horrific shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 were terrible reminders once again of the trauma that unresolved mental illnesses can inflict. But what…

Let’s continue the discussion we began last week of the concept of maximum medical improvement (MMI) in Colorado workers’ compensation cases. MMI involves a formal determination that no additional medical treatment is reasonably likely to produce further improvement in someone’s medical condition after a work injury. In this part of the post, we will elaborate…

If you have been injured at work, getting prompt and effective medical treatment is vitally important. Keep in mind, however, that the tradeoffs involved in the workers’ compensation system include certain limitations on your choice of doctor. In this post, we will inform you about some of the limitations. In Colorado, the workers’ compensation statute…

Even when a work environment has good safety records, an accident can still occur and injure or even kill workers. Just recently, the Revenue-Virginius mine in Ouray, a mine that has never had a fatal accident, was the location of two miner deaths. The Mine Safety and Health Administration is still investigating this past weekend’s…

Colorado has a number of mines across the state that employ approximately 12,000 workers. In addition, the Colorado Mining Association estimates that around 46,000 people are employed in professions and industries that are related to the mining industry. These workers, which include engineers, consultants, and technicians, support an industry that produced 29 million tons of…