Glossary

The Glossary below is designed to explain in layperson’s terms many of the significant words and phrases used in the Colorado Workers’ Compensation system. Unlike most glossaries currently available, this glossary includes the statutory, rule, or case law authority which supports a particular definition. This glossary is not intended to constitute legal advice. For information about how a word or phrase pertains to your specific fact pattern, please seek competent legal advice.

• Accident
• Accreditation
• Administrative Law Judge
• Administrative System
• Aggravation of Previous Condition (Traumatic Cases)
• Aggravation, Substantial Permanent (Occupational Disease Cases) (See Substantial Permanent Aggravation)
• AMA Guides
• Appeal
• Application of Hearing
• Apportionment
• Arbitration
• Assault, Liability for
• Attorney
• Attorney’s Fees
• Authorized Treating Physician
• Authorized Treating Physician Who Provides Primary Care
• Average Weekly Wage (AWW)
• Bad Faith Adjusting of the Claim
• Claimant
• Claim for Compensation
• Claims Adjuster
• Claims Managers at Division of Workers’ Compensation
• Closure of Case
• Compensable Claim
• Concurrent Employment
• Confidentiality of Records
• Course of Employment
• Court of Appeals
• Death Benefits
• Designation of Treating Physician
• Dictating of Physician
• Directing Care of Chain of Referral
• Director of Division of Workers’ Compensation
• Disfigurement
• Dismissal of Case
• Division of Administrative Hearings
• Division of Workers’ Compensation
• Division of Workers’ Compensation Web Site
• Docket Room
• Employee
• Employer
• Employer’s First Report of Injury
• Exclusive Remedy (Workers’ Compensation Bar)
• Expedited Hearing
• Extremity Rating Schedule
• Fee Schedule
• File Room
• Final Admission
• Forms
• Fully Contested Case
• General Admission of Liability
• Grover Medical Benefits
• Hearings
• Heart Attacks
• Independent Contractor
• Independent Medical Examination
• Industrial Claims Appeal Panel (ICAP)
• Injuries during Medical Care
• Insurance Carrier
• Insured Employer
• Interest
• Investigators, Private
• Josie Collins Rule
• Jurisdiction
• Last Injurious Exposure
• Lawyer (See Attorney)
• Light Duty
• Level I Accredited Physician
• Level II Accredit3ed Physician
• Lost Time Claim/Injury
• Lump Sum Payment of Benefits
• Managed Care
• Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI)
• Maximum Benefit Rate
• Mediation
• Medical Benefits
• Medical Case Management
• Medical Mileage
• Mental Impairment (Stress claims)
• Modified Duty (See Light Duty)
• Non-Insured
• Notice of Accident/Injury (See Written Notice of Injury)
• Notice of Contest
• Notice of Final Payment
• Notice of Hearing
• Notice of Setting
• Occupational Disease
• Offsets
• Parking Lot Injuries
• Penalties
• Permanent Partial Disability (PPD)
• Permanent Partial Disability (PPD) Statutory “Caps”
• Permanent Total Disability (PTD)
• Pre-Hearing
• Preponderance of the Evidence
• “Reasonable Degree of Medical Probability”
• Recreational Activities
• Release of Information, Authorization for
• Reopening
• Respondents
• Responsible for Separation from Employment (See Termination, Responsibility for)
• Restricted Duty (See Light Duty)
• Ripeness of Issues
• Rule 6 (Formerly Rule IX) (See Unilateral Suspension/Termination of Temporary Benefits)
• Safety Rule Violations
• Self-Insured Employer
• Senate Bill 218 (SB 218)
• Settlement
• Settlement Conference
• Settlement Documents
• Six-Month Closure Rule
• Social Security Offset (See also “Offsets”)
• Statutory Employer
• Stress Claim (See Mental Impairment)
• Subrogation
• Subsequent Injury Fund
• Substantial Permanent Aggravation
• Temporary Partial Disability (TPD)
• Temporary Total Disability (TTD)
• Termination, Responsibility for
• Time Limits
• Travel Status
• Unilateral Suspension/Termination of Temporary Benefits
• Utilization Review
• Verbal Notice of Injury
• Vocational Evaluation
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Web Site for the Division of Workers’ Compensation
• Whole Person Impairment Rating
• Written Notice of Injury