Sometimes, people don’t die right away despite being badly injured in a car crash. They may recover enough to leave the hospital but have further medical treatments or surgeries needed in the future. This becomes complicated when someone has complications that may lead to their death long after the car crash occurred. For example, someone who is paralyzed in an auto accident may pass away due to autonomic dysfunction days, weeks or even years later. If you have not settled…

If you’ve lost a family member to a drunk driver or been involved in a serious accident that left you with devastating injuries, you may have one simple question: Why? Why would someone put you in danger like this? Why would they get behind the wheel, knowing full well that they were impaired and may cause an accident? There are many different reasons and excuses that people give. To put an end to drunk driving, we need to understand what…

To be legally drunk in Colorado, you have to drink enough alcohol to raise your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08%. For the state to charge someone with an impaired driving offense, they will need to exceed that limit or demonstrate visible impairment to their driving ability.  However, drivers with a much lower BAC than the state limit could still cause serious crashes. Sometimes, these drivers are particularly sensitive to alcohol, meaning they experience impairment at a BAC below the…

When someone in your immediate family dies, the consequences could last a lifetime. When you consider the impact of that loss, looking into a wrongful death claim can minimize the financial consequences, at least. Colorado law gives you the option of seeking compensation for economic losses based on what the deceased person would have likely provided to their dependents and also non-economic losses, like emotional suffering due to a tragic loss. For many families, economic losses related to future income…

Those living in Colorado may wonder where they rank in terms of dangerous roadways, and a report has recently come out placing the state about as close to the middle of the pack as it is possible to get. Colorado ranked 25th in deadly accidents.  This was found by looking at the total deaths per 100 million miles. There were 1.09. Sorting the statistics this way allows states like Colorado to be accurately compared to both dense population centers, like…