What Is Mitigation?
How Efforts to Mitigate Your Damages Can Help You Recover Damages in a Personal Injury Claim According to the legal doctrine of mitigation, every person who suffers a personal injury has a duty to act to avoid additional damage and reduce the effects of the injury. An...
Challenging Your Degree of Fault for an Automobile Accident
Reduce Your Fault to Increase Your Compensation In many automobile accidents, more than one party is found to be at fault. Can you still recover damages if you are one of them? How Fault Is Determined Fault for an accident is determined by insurance companies and law...
Frequently Asked Questions About Colorado Motorcycle Laws
Obeying the law can help you avoid motorcycle injuries and accidents. More than 8 million motorcycles are registered in the United States, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). A startling statistic: The number of deaths of motorcyclists in...
Recovering Damages in a Colorado Wrongful Death Case
How Loved Ones Can Be Compensated for Their Loss A wrongful death lawsuit enables family members to obtain compensation for the loss of a loved one from a person who can be held liable for the death. Who is entitled to wrongful death damages? During the first year...
How Does Bankruptcy Affect Your Colorado Personal Injury Case?
It depends on the kind of bankruptcy being filed. Bankruptcy is likely to affect a Colorado personal injury claim. But exactly how it will affect the claim depends on who is filing for bankruptcy and under which federal chapter relief is being sought. There are two...
Making a Diminished Value Claim After a Colorado Auto Accident
Learn how insurance companies assign a monetary value to vehicles following a collision. When your car is in an accident, its value is automatically reduced, even if the repairs seem to make it as good as new. The problem: your vehicle now has an accident history. The...