You were in a car accident, and injured in the crash. Now you have expensive medical bills, car repair bills and are unable to work for a few weeks. Who is responsible for paying damages under Colorado law?Unfortunately, this answer is not always easy to pin down. To...
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Fire Investigations Yield Clues About Cause
The recent wildfires in California are racking up staggering losses for insurers, and are expected to rise above 3.3 billion dollars. The accumulated damages represent claims from thousands of homes that were lost or partially damaged, as well as those from thousands...
Trending insurance claim strategies
There are some classic and all-too-common villain tropes in the movies: the Scrooge-type miser, the megalomaniac and the greedy, faceless corporation. Add insurance companies to that list. Movies show them as heartless organizations denied their customers in the name...
Proven or experimental? Opinions on health treatments can differ.
It is certainly a commonplace to spot stories in the media where insurers' bad-faith conduct is alleged. The focus of wrongful behavior is often on claims of unresponsiveness to policyholders' lawful demands or issued checks that don't fully cover costs. And it is...
Sued for patent infringement: badge of honor for Denver firm?
GoSpotCheck has truly arrived.Matt Talbot, CEO of the 2011-founded Denver company, recently told a reporter that he thought his business had firmly made its mark when "we got spa water and ice machines." Now it can proudly point to -- in a perverse and ironic way --...
Court rules: when a policy cap is not, well, a policy cap
The principals of national insurer OneBeacon Insurance thought they had it duly figured out and were sufficiently protected by language in an insurance policy that addressed the limits of their liability to an insured in any claim for losses and damages.Unfortunately...
When it comes to your startup, don’t neglect IP concerns
As a commentator in a recent business-related article notes, the principals of startup enterprises routinely devote -- and rightly so -- a substantial amount of time, energy and resources to the crafting of plans geared toward promoting success.That's just a given,...
National insurer will need diligent legal advocacy in this matter
Although some people might view it as ironical, it really isn't surprising that insurance companies -- which safeguard the interests of others and stand ready to help mitigate risk when its downsides materialize -- also need help sometimes when they face adverse...
Colorado accidents: who pays damages?
You were in a car accident, and injured in the crash. Now you have expensive medical bills, car repair bills and are unable to work for a few weeks. Who is responsible for paying damages under Colorado law?Unfortunately, this answer is not always easy to pin down. To...
A foul result for some buyers of new homes in Colorado
"Home sweet home" is likely not the mantra that first comes to mind for some Colorado home buyers.And that is understandable, given that their new dwellings are emitting strong smells that spell far more than mere inconvenience and irritation. A lawsuit recently filed...