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Defense attorneys in Colorado slip and fall cases have a go-to argument, and it works more often than it should. They call it the storm-in-progress defense, and the logic is straightforward: if ice formed recently enough that a reasonable property owner could not yet have discovered and cleared it, the owner bears no liability….

A grocery store customer who slips on an unmarked wet floor and a neighbor who trips on a broken porch step both suffered injuries on someone else’s property. Colorado law treats those two people very differently, and that difference often determines whether a claim succeeds or fails before a single piece of evidence is…

Most Colorado drivers carry uninsured motorist coverage and assume one policy is the entire safety net. After a hit and run on I-25 or a side street in Aurora leaves them with real losses and no identifiable driver, they call their insurer and accept whatever single-policy limit the adjuster puts on the table. The…

Insurance adjusters are not neutral referees. The moment you file a claim after an accident in Colorado, they start building a case: not for you, but against you. Colorado’s modified comparative negligence law gives them a precise tool to do it, because your recovery shrinks with every percentage point of fault they pin on…