Employer Not Liable for Cost of Guardian, Conservator for Brain-Damaged Employee

The Colorado Court of Appeals last week ruled that an employer is not liable for the costs of providing conservator or guardian services to a permanently and totally disabled worker with a compensable traumatic brain injury. Since such services don’t cure or relieve a claimant of the effects of his injury, the court said Brian Nanez’s employer did not need to pay for them. Nanez had worked as a plumber for Mechanical & Piping. He developed significant cognitive deficits after he suffered head injuries while at work. An independent medical examiner noted that Nanez was incapa...