If your Halloween costume is suffering from creative block, allow us to inspire with video from last summer's Pride Fest in Denver.
A bluegrass quartet in the park remains unnamed.
Paula holds forth on how the injured worker's "exclusive" remedy is supposedly through the Worker's Compensation Act, until and unless your employer or insurer operates with bad faith in failing to fully investigate or pay justified claims.
But according to Padilla v. Industrial Commission, the Director of the Department of Labor is supposed to allow reopening of claims.
And then according to Smith v. Myron Stratton Homes, the employer is responsible for reporting the injury to the division AND TO THE CLAIMANT, and there is a penalty for not doing that.
Paula proposes ballot initiatives for NEXT YEAR, including:
1. The public votes to select members of the board of Pinnacol Assurance.
2. The public votes to select members of the Colorado Worker's Compensation Division cost containment board, without restriction by occupation because it violates the 14th Amendment.
3. An office to accommodate injured workers with brain injuries will be established. This office will ensure that people with brain injuries will immediately receive triple tessla MRI brainscans to avoid and deter long useless litigation and wrongful delay and denial of benefits to claimants.
4. Fundraising to establish a "public defender" to provide legal representation to mentally disabled claimants would prevent long litigation and public assistance where the public has had no voice or vote.
5. Prohibit the attorney general from representing Pinnacol Assurance or any other corporation, insurance company or employer. Make him represent people who eat and breathe, sleep and bleed and die.
6. Remove Administrative Law Judge Michael Harr.
7. Remove Administrative Law Judge Thomas DiMarino
8. Remove Denver District Judge Morris Ben Hoffman for ruling that employers' witnesses are free to provide false testimony, despite C.R.S. 8-43-402, which Hoffman ruled applies only to claimants and their witnesses. West's publication in the federal law library states that statute applies to all parties.
9. Establish a study to review outcomes of injured workers with brain injuries not including comas or wheelchairs. Evaluate longterm outcomes for that segment of people.
10. Establish public juries to review decisions of Administrative Law Judges for violations of due process rights.
11. Reduce Ken Ross's severence pay to no more than $100,000.
12. Replace Ken Ross by public vote.
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If you agree with me, then let me know at wheeeee2007@aol.com. If you disagree, please provide logical improvements so we can modify the end ballot initiative before the deadline next year. OK?
