Personal Injury

If you get bitten by a dog and you’re thinking about seeking financial compensation from the dog’s owner, you want to make sure that it really covers all of the costs that you have. These may include the initial costs after the bite -- riding in an ambulance, going to...

Increasingly, people are choosing vacation rentals through companies like Airbnb and VRBO over hotels for everything from weekend getaways to family vacations to business trips. They can be less expensive than a hotel if you’re traveling with your children or other...

It’s never a good day when you fall and get hurt. You may have been walking up to your neighbor’s house to drop off a package or have been jogging up to the door of a building before you fell. That fall may have left you with a broken ankle, wrist or elbow. You may...

When most people think about premises liability, they usually envision someone slipping and falling in a parking lot or grocery store aisle. However, property-related injuries can occur in other ways as well. Stairs, for example, are often the scene of many serious...

Perhaps you were coming out of your apartment and walking down to your car when someone mugged you in the parking lot. Maybe the basement bathrooms at a local nightclub had too many dark corners that led to a preventable sexual assault.  While such criminal acts are...

When you suffer an injury on another person’s property, you may be entitled to substantial compensation. However, the state of Colorado has specific statutes governing how premises liability claims are handled and processed. Unless you have a firm grasp of the law in...

Doctors are just like everyone else: When they get overly fatigued, they make mistakes.  This is sometimes presented in a humorous light. Some doctors have talked about forgetting simple things -- such as how to use a smartphone -- or saying “I love you” at the end of...

Most doctors are highly competent professionals, and most hospitals have numerous systems in place to prevent catastrophic medical mistakes. If you are like most Americans, you probably think that medical malpractice is something that doesn't happen often here in the...

Of all the things that might go wrong with a patient's medical care, there are certain events that should never, ever happen. The vast majority of these "never events" include wrong-site, wrong-procedure and wrong-patient errors (WSPEs). They're called "never events,"...

Although the Spring Equinox may be upon us, it seems that Mother Nature may not be done having her wintry way with Coloradans. While the daytime temps may creep up into the 50s or even 60s, the cold nighttime weather can cause a patina of ice to form over any...