Legal Opinion
Beeson v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of the State
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided January 9, 1997No. 96CA0884PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge ROTHENBERG.
Claimant, Alev Beeson, seeks review of an order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Panel denying her request for reimbursement of attorney fees. We affirm.
The basic facts are undisputed. After claimant suffered a compensable injury in November 1989, she retained respondent Marshall A Fogel, an attorney, to represent her on her compensation claim. No written agreement was signed, but she orally agreed to a 20 percent contingency fee.
In 1992, while represented by Fogel, claimant entered into a full settlement of her workers’ compensation claim for $45,000, which was…
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