Pre-Existing Condition Disputes in Colorado Injury Claims If you have ever had a prior injury, a chronic condition, or even an old sports injury that flared up years later, there is a good chance an insurance adjuster will find it in your medical records after a crash. Once they do, a familiar argument shows up: […]
Diminished Value Claims After a Colorado Car Accident Repairs can make a damaged car look and drive like new again, but they rarely erase its accident history. Once a vehicle has been in a collision, that fact typically shows up on a vehicle history report forever, and buyers pay less for a car with a […]
Delivery Driver and Gig Economy Accidents: Whose Insurance Actually Pays More cars on Colorado roads than ever are being driven for a side hustle, whether that is Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Instacart, Uber Eats, or a dozen other apps. When one of these drivers causes a crash, figuring out who pays for your injuries gets more […]
Black Ice and Weather-Related Crash Liability in Colorado Colorado drivers hear it after almost every winter crash: the road was icy, there was nothing anyone could do, it was just bad luck. Sometimes that is true. Often it is not. Weather does not erase a driver’s duty to adjust to the conditions in front of […]
What Happens When the At-Fault Driver Has No Insurance in Colorado You did everything right. You were not at fault, you called the police, you got medical care. Then you find out the driver who hit you does not have insurance, or has so little that it will not come close to covering what you […]
Left-Turn Accidents at Colorado Intersections: How Fault Gets Decided Left-turn crashes happen in an instant, but the argument over who caused them can drag on for months. You are driving straight through a green light or a stop sign controlled intersection, and a driver coming from the opposite direction turns left directly into your path. […]
Child Passenger Injuries in Colorado Car Accidents: What Parents Need to Know Nothing about a car accident feels routine when your child is in the back seat. Even a crash that looks minor from the outside can leave a parent replaying every second, wondering if the car seat was installed right, if the booster was […]
Multi-Vehicle Pileups on the I-70 Mountain Corridor: How Fault Actually Gets Divided You are driving through Glenwood Canyon or coming down Vail Pass, traffic slows, and then it happens fast. Brake lights, a jolt from behind, another jolt, and suddenly you are one car among eight or ten that just collided in the space of […]
Distracted Driving Accidents in Colorado: Proving the Other Driver Was on Their Phone Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of vehicle crashes in Colorado, and phone use while driving is the most common and most documented form. When a driver who was texting or scrolling causes a crash, the injured person typically knows […]
What to Do When the Other Driver’s Insurance Denies Your Colorado Car Accident Claim Receiving a denial from an insurance company after a car accident is disorienting, especially when you know you were not at fault. Insurers deny claims for a range of reasons – some legitimate, some not – and the denial letter rarely […]