Opinion ID: 1420198
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 16

Heading: Summary of Constitutional Analysis

Text: In summary, with regard to Petitioners' constitutional challenge, the fact that the legislature's line-drawing may be imperfect, may result in some inequity, or could have been tailored more precisely, does not warrant a reviewing court to strike down the statute. The standard of review is not mathematical nicety. Duran, 883 P.2d at 483. Faced with practical legislative dilemmas, the General Assembly is empowered to craft solutions that roughly accommodate varying interests and take costs and benefits of the workers' compensation program and employer contributions to social security and employer paid retirement programs into account. See id. (upholding the workers' compensation benefits scheme that calculates benefits based upon severity of injury). Here, the statutory distinction carries out legitimate policy choices of the General Assembly. In the words of Colorado's statute, the purpose of the Workers' Compensation Act is to assure the quick and efficient delivery of disability and medical benefits to injured workers at a reasonable cost to employers. § 8-40-101(2), 3 C.R.S. (1998).