4-200-618 (1998). MARIA ACEVEDO.

• Case Date: July 30, 1998
• Court: Colorado

Colorado Workers Compensation 1998. 4-200-618 (1998). MARIA ACEVEDO INDUSTRIAL CLAIM APPEALS OFFICEIN THE MATTER OF THE CLAIM OF MARIA ACEVEDO a/k/a EVA QUINTERO, Claimant, v. SPECIALIZED CLEANING, Employer, and COLORADO COMPENSATION INSURANCE AUTHORITY, Insurer, Respondents.W. C. No. 4-200-618FINAL ORDER The claimant seeks review of a final order of Administrative Law Judge Erickson (ALJ), which denied the claim for additional temporary disability, medical, and permanent total disability benefits. We affirm. The claimant has not submitted a brief in support of her petition to review. Neither has she provided a transcript of hearing. The only specific argument contained in the claimant's petition to review is that the ALJ erred in denying her claim for permanent total disability benefits. The claimant asserts the ALJ should have given greater weight to the medical and vocational experts which offered evidence in support of her claim. The claimant had the burden to prove that the industrial injury rendered her unable to earn "any wages" to establish entitlement to permanent total disability benefits. Section 8-40-201(16.5)(a), C.R.S. 1997. The question of whether the claimant proved the inability to earn any wages is one of fact for determination by the ALJ. Weld County School Dist. RE-12 v. Bymer, 955 P.2d 550 (Colo. 1998); Best-Way Concrete Co. v. Baumgartner, 908 P.2d 1194 (Colo. App. 1995). Thus, we must uphold the ALJ's order if supported by substantial evidence in the record. Section 8-43-301(8), C.R.S. 1997. This standard of review requires us to defer to the ALJ's resolution of conflicts in the evidence, his credibility determinations, and the plausible inferences which he drew from the evidence. Metro Moving and Storage Co. v. Gussert, 914 P.2d 411 (Colo. App. 1995). Because the...