Colorado Division of Administrative Hearings Now Publishes Chief Judge's Directives

• Publication year: 2001
• Pages: 53
• Citation: Vol. 30 No. 8 Pg. 53

30 Colo.Law. 53 Colorado Lawyer 2001.

2001, August, Pg. 53. Colorado Division of Administrative Hearings Now Publishes Chief Judge's Directives

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Vol. 30, No. 8, Pg. 53

The Colorado Lawyer
August 2001
Vol. 30, No. 8 [Page 53]

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Colorado Division of Administrative Hearings Now Publishes Chief Judge's Directives

The Colorado Division of Administrative Hearings ("Division") is Colorado's central panel of administrative law judges ("ALJs"). The Division provides administrative adjudication services to more than twenty-five different state agencies. The Division's ALJs hear and decide cases involving workers' compensation professional and occupational licenses, public benefits and Medicaid, state government personnel disputes, education of disabled students, dismissal of tenured teachers, campaign finance laws, highway signs and highway access, lottery bingo, raffles, and many other subject matters

Starting in 2001, the Division's Chief Judge has issued eleven Chief Judge's Directives ("CJDs"). The purpose of these CJDs is to provide guidance to attorneys, parties, agencies, and the public about how to conduct their business with the Division. The CJDs cover such subjects as filing procedures, how to direct inquiries to the Division, how ALJs are assigned in certain types of cases, and how certain types of cases are scheduled or continued. The eleven CJDs already issued are published here to give readers a sampling of such subjects. Additional CJDs will be published on a space-available basis in the "Court Business" section of the journal (just as Chief Justice Directives from the Colorado Supreme Court are published). Please watch for these. The Division's CJDs also can be accessed online at: http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/gss/DOAH/cjdindex.htm.

Index of Chief Judge's Directives

Procedures for Presenting Evidence and Position Statements in Workers' Compensation Hearings (posted: March 1, 2001)

Criteria for Determining "Good Cause" to Continue Workers' Compensation Hearings (posted: March 1, 2001)

Setting Hearings Outside of the Time Limits of CRS § 8-43-209 in Workers' Compensation Cases (posted: March 1, 2001)

Referral of Proposed Orders in Workers' Compensation Cases (posted: March 1, 2001)

Motions Practice in Workers' Compensation Hearings (posted: March 1, 2001)

Assignment of Judges in Regulatory Agency, Department of Education, Secretary of State, Day Care Licensing, Central Registry and Other Complex Cases (posted: March 1, 2001)

Inquiries to the Division of Administrative Hearings Regarding Specific Cases (posted: March 1, 2001)

Testimony of Physicians and Other Expert Witnesses in Workers' Compensation Cases: (posted: March 1, 2001)

Filing of Pleadings, Documents and Other Communications (posted: April 2, 2001)

Continuation of Cases on Trailing Dockets in Workers' Compensation Cases (posted: May 14, 2001)

Motions and Orders Submitted by Facsimile in Workers' Compensation Cases (posted: May 14, 2001)

Chief Judge's Directives

No. 1

Subject:

Procedures for Presenting Evidence and Position

Statements in Workers' Compensation Hearings

(a) At the hearing the parties may submit for the record medical and hospital records, physicians' reports, vocational reports, and records of the employer as evidence without formal identification [section 8-43-210, C.R.S.]. These documents must be submitted to the opposing party (or attorney, if there is one) at least 20 days prior to hearing (Division of Workers' Compensation Rule VIII, I, 1).

To avoid confusion with other exhibits which may be offered into evidence at the hearing, the following instructions apply to identifying the documents described above and other exhibits which the parties want the judge to consider:

i. Claimants' submissions of the documents described above must be identified by a separate number for each document. Any other exhibits offered at the hearing will be numbered consecutively.

ii. Respondents' submissions of the documents described above must be identified by a...