The claimant was offered benefits through his employment including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, and long term disability benefits. These benefits were voluntary and could be waived by the employees. The claimant selected several benefits provided by his employer including supplemental life insurance and long term disability benefits. The insurance [...]

The claimant was a groundskeeper for a golf course and part of his duties involved cleaning drains for grass and weeds. When cleaning the drains, the claimant alleged that his feet would become wet. The claimant developed a diabetic foot ulcer, which led to a gangrene infection and several amputations of the foot. The [...]

The claimant sustained a work related injury to his neck and back. The respondents admitted liability and filed a General Admission of Liability admitting to temporary total disability benefits (TTD benefits). The claimant reported to his authorized treating provider (ATP) that he could not work, and based on this representation, the ATP restricted the [...]

The petitioner was working as a respiratory therapist on August 19, 2017. The petitioner entered a patient’s room and found the patient standing over the bedside and swaying as if she was going to fall. The petitioner caught the patient and then immediately felt a sharp, pinching pain in her back. The petitioner was [...]

Our office successfully obtained a substantial subrogation recovery in a Federal Interpleader action filed in the State of Utah. A vehicle owned by the employer was struck by a third party. The third-party’s insurer interplead the policy limits with the Federal Court. There were several parties involved all claiming entitlement to the funds that [...]

Defendants filed a Petition for Review with the Utah Court of Appeals (the Court) after the Commission ordered the defendants to pay temporary total disability (TTD) benefits for a time period in which the petitioner had already been paid. The petitioner filed a cross-appeal, seeking further TTD benefits. The cross-appeal was filed after the [...]

The petitioner brought a claim against two former employers for workers’ compensation benefits related to chronic lung disease alleged to have occurred through exposure at work. In June of 2016 the petitioner was seen by a physician who noted in his history that the patient had been exposed at work to harmful chemicals. The [...]

Jessica Grimes recently successfully litigated compensability of a claim in Arizona. The applicant, age 49, testified that she worked as a registered nurse for Defendant Employer for at least two shifts per month. On July 29, 2020, Applicant went to Red Mountain Weight Loss and she received Botox and fillers for her cheeks. She [...]

In a first impression case in Colorado, ALJ Kabler denied benefits in a death claim after finding that the decedent’s COVID-19 could not be fairly traced to his employment as the proximate cause of that diagnosis, even where another co-employee was confirmed to be COVID-19 positive in the same approximate time period. The evidence demonstrated that [...]

In cases where a court has already issued a valid court order regarding parenting time, either parent can file a motion to restrict the other parent’s contact with the child(ren) if there exist facts to support the position that the child is in imminent physical or emotional danger due to the current parenting time [...]