In Hargon, the Industrial Claims Appeals Office (the Panel) found no reversible error in the ALJ’s exercise of discretion regarding calculation of the claimant’s average weekly wage (AWW). The Panel affirmed that the ALJ correctly cited the law and reasonably declined to base the claimant’s AWW on speculative future earnings.

In Cardona, the Industrial Claims Appeals Office (the Panel) affirmed the ALJ’s decision to award $18,000 in penalties under § 8-43-304(1), C.R.S. for failure to timely file a final admission of liability in accordance with WCRP 5-5(E).

On August 4, 2022, the claimant was assaulted in a road rage incident while working as a utility meter reader. He sustained a traumatic, incomplete tear of the right rotator cuff, requiring shoulder replacement surgery and biceps tenodesis.

On March 14, 2024, the claimant was in a motor vehicle accident while operating the leased truck, and he stopped working for the employer afterwards. The claimant filed a claim for temporary medical benefits and medical benefits. The employer contested the claim by arguing that the claimant was an independent contractor, and thus they are not liable for worker’s compensation benefits.

In Roadsafe Traffic Systems, two claimants were seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident during their commute to work in a RoadSafe company truck. RoadSafe disputed the claims, arguing that the claimants’ injuries did not arise out of and in the course of their employment as they were commuting to work.

In Gallegos, the claimant sustained an admitted work injury to his neck on September 5, 2019. From September 2019 to April 2022, Claimant alleged considerable pain in his neck, back, and left shoulder. Claimant also reported to his medical providers that he had lower back surgery in 2012, but no other medical history. When his authorized treating providers released him to restricted duty around late October 2019, the claimant worked for two days before asserting he could no longer work due to the pain, and he never returned to work. Upon further investigation, the employer found that the claimant had asserted prior worker’s compensation claims and applied for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits on multiple occasions based on alleged neck, back, and shoulder injuries.

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.

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.

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.

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.