March 25, 2025

Retroactive Safety Violation Benefit Reduction Not Time Barred by Statute

Read the latest Winning Orders and Case Law Updates for Arizona, Colorado, Utah and more.
March 25, 2025
Retroactive Safety Violation Benefit Reduction Not Time Barred by Statute

In Sorensen, the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (the Panel) set aside the ALJ’s order denying an application for hearing to retroactively reduce a parking lot security guard’s compensation by 50% based on the claimant’s alleged violation of a safety rule.

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March 25, 2025
Summary Judgment on Untimely Claim

A claimant files a workers' compensation claim for alleged mold exposure listing the date of injury over a decade prior and requesting a hearing for a previous claim during that period declaring it a fraudulent settlement.

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March 25, 2025
Mechanism of Injury Consistent with Activities of Daily Living

A heavy equipment operator in a mine testifies that when an excavator dropped dirt and rock into his long haul truck bed he felt back pain and later suffered pneumonia from the accident.

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March 25, 2025
Attendant Services – Reasonably Necessary and Compensable

In Enterprise and Cannon Cochran v. Mohamed, the Colorado Court of Appeals (the Court) held that daily attendant services were reasonably necessary as maintenance care for a claimant who sustained long-lasting mental health conditions from her work-related injuries.

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