Colorado law compensates injured workers with disability payments for vision loss, plus 100% of your medical care, lost wages, and more. Insurance companies count on injured workers not knowing this. We make sure to get every dollar the law requires.
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Every day, about 2,000 American workers suffer an eye injury on the job serious enough to need medical treatment. For 1 or 2 out of every 10 of them, the damage to their vision is permanent.
If that's you, you already know what the statistics don't say: you can't drive the way you used to. You can't do the work you've done your whole life. You're worried about your family, your bills, and whether you'll ever get back to normal, while the insurance adjuster keeps calling, asking you to sign things.
Here's what we want you to know: Colorado law is on your side, and the benefits you're entitled to are bigger than most injured workers realize. But the insurance company will never volunteer that information. Their job is to close your claim cheap. Our job is to stop them.
Colorado treats on-the-job eye injuries as compensable claims, meaning the law sets specific, guaranteed benefits. Here's what the law provides:
Every surgery, ER visit, specialist, prosthetic eye, and follow-up related to your injury, paid in full, with no co-pays and no deductibles, for as long as you need treatment.
If you can't work (or can only work reduced hours), you're entitled to roughly two-thirds of your average weekly wage until you reach maximum medical improvement.
Disability benefits for total blindness in one eye is calculated differently than partial vision loss.
Blindness in both eyes can qualify as permanent total disability, meaning wage-replacement benefits for life.
Scarring or visible changes to your eye and face entitle you to additional compensation on top of your disability benefits.
If your vision loss means you can't return to your old trade, you may be entitled to retraining support for a new career.
The insurance company knows all of this. The question is whether you know it before you accept their first offer. A free 15-minute conversation with us will tell you if you have a case.
Work-related eye injuries cost insurers over $924 million a year in workers' comp payments. That's why serious eye claims get "special handling," which means adjusters and defense lawyers looking for any reason to pay you less.
Here's what they do:
You don't pay us anything up front, and studies consistently show injured workers with attorneys recover significantly more than those without, even after fees. There is no version of this where talking to us first hurts you.
Free consultation, 7 days a week, in English or Spanish. Tell us what happened. We'll tell you honestly whether you have a case.
We handle the paperwork, deadlines, adjusters, and doctors' disputes. You focus on your recovery and your family. The insurance company stops calling you and starts dealing with us.
Medical care, wage benefits, permanent disability, disfigurement: we pursue the full value of your claim. And if we don't win, you owe us nothing. Ever.
For years, injured Coloradans have turned to Mintz Law Firm when the insurance company wouldn't play fair. Our 11 attorneys bring more than 250 years of combined experience, and recover over $20 million for our clients every single year.
We're not a national call center that sells your case to the highest bidder. We're a Colorado firm, in Lakewood, and the attorney handling your case is the one you'll actually talk to.
"Was expecting to win a settlement but from past experience, assumed it would take forever and be a low ball offer. Thanks to Lane and Linda they got me twice as much as I thought. Great team ya got there."
"Very good law firm. I will definitely recommend them to all my friends and family. My lawyer Robin Scully did an excellent job. He got me a fair and decent settlement for my accident."
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Nothing up front, ever. We work on contingency, meaning our fee is a percentage of what we recover for you. If we recover nothing, you pay nothing. The consultation is free too.
It depends on your wages, your impairment rating, and how the injury affects your ability to work. As a baseline, Colorado law provides medical care, lost wages during recovery, disfigurement compensation, and disability benefits if there is some permanent vision loss. In a free consultation, we can tell you which benefits you may qualify for.
It is illegal for your employer to fire or retaliate against you for filing a workers' comp claim in Colorado. If it happens, that's a separate legal claim you can pursue on top of your comp case.
It doesn't matter. Colorado workers' comp is a no-fault system. Injured workers are eligible for benefits even if the injury was their fault.
Not before you know what your claim is actually worth. First offers on serious eye injuries are almost always low; insurers hope you'll settle before the full extent of your vision loss is documented. Let us review the offer for free before you sign anything.
Don't give up. Late reporting can reduce benefits but rarely eliminates them, and disputes over how the injury happened are exactly what we handle. Call us before you assume you have no case.
Initially, your employer has the right to designate treating physicians, but you have important rights about changing doctors and challenging their impairment rating. This single issue often makes the biggest difference in what your case is worth. We handle it for you.
You should give written notice to your employer within 10 days of the injury, and a formal claim generally must be filed within 2 years. But don't wait: evidence, witnesses, and medical documentation are strongest early. Call today even if you're not sure you want to file.
We provide a free case review at any stage: denied claims, disputed impairment ratings, cut-off benefits, or bad settlement offers.
Every week you wait, evidence fades, witnesses forget, and the insurance company builds its file against you. A free phone call today protects everything.
You can't undo the injury. But you can make sure your family is taken care of, your medical bills are paid, and the insurance company pays what Colorado law says you're owed.
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