Denver Personal Injury Lawyer

How Do You Document Injuries and Financial Losses?

Medical records should connect the incident to the diagnosis, treatment, restrictions, and expected recovery. Seek care suited to your symptoms, follow reasonable instructions, and describe changes honestly. If care is delayed or interrupted, note why. That context may matter when the medical history is reviewed.

Financial proof can include bills, benefit statements, medication costs, travel expenses, pay records, used leave, work restrictions, tax returns, contracts, and records of help needed at home. A short factual recovery log can document symptoms, appointments, sleep, work limits, and missed activities without exaggeration.

Serious or permanent injuries may require opinions about future treatment, rehabilitation, equipment, household support, vocational limits, or reduced earning capacity. Those future losses should be evaluated before a final release is signed.

What Compensation May Be Available?

A personal injury claim may seek compensation for losses that the evidence connects to the event. There is no dependable average settlement. The result depends on responsibility, injury severity, medical proof, future effects, available insurance, legal limits, and the strength of the evidence.

Depending on the claim, recoverable losses may include:

• Past and future medical care, rehabilitation, medication, and equipment.
• Lost income, used leave, and reduced future earning ability.
• Property damage, towing, storage, replacement, and loss-of-use costs.
• Physical pain, emotional distress, impairment, disfigurement, and loss of normal activities.
• Household services or support made necessary by the injury.

Special rules or limits may apply to particular claims and damage categories. A wrongful-death claim also uses a separate framework. We evaluate each claimed loss against the governing law and available proof rather than promising a number before the facts are known.

What If You Were Partly at Fault?

Colorado uses a modified comparative negligence rule. Under C.R.S. section 13-21-111, you may recover when your fault is less than the fault of the person you seek to hold responsible. Your award is reduced by your share of fault. In a typical one-defendant claim, 50% or more fault generally prevents recovery. Multiple-party claims require a separate analysis.

An insurer’s fault decision, incident report, or citation is not final. Video, witnesses, physical evidence, policies, records, and expert analysis may support or challenge it.

How Long Do You Have to File a Colorado Personal Injury Claim?

Colorado uses different deadlines for different injury claims. C.R.S. section 13-80-101(1)(n) generally allows three years to begin a lawsuit for injury or property damage arising from the use or operation of a motor vehicle. C.R.S. section 13-80-102 generally allows two years for many other negligence claims. Wrongful-death actions usually follow a separate two-year rule. C.R.S. section 13-80-108 addresses when a claim accrues, or when its filing clock starts. The exact deadline depends on the facts and claims.

If a Colorado public entity or an employee acting within the scope of public employment may be responsible, C.R.S. section 24-10-109 may require written notice within 182 days after discovery of the injury. The notice must include required information and go to the correct recipient. An ordinary incident report usually does not satisfy this separate notice requirement, and filing a lawsuit later cannot cure a late notice.

In Mostellar v. City of Colorado Springs, 2026 CO 22, the court held that the notice period began when the claimant discovered her injury, not when she later learned which city might be responsible. The court required strict compliance on those facts. The Denver City Attorney’s instructions apply only to claims involving the City and County of Denver. Check the recipient, contents, and delivery method for each public entity.

Product, insurance, medical, governmental, out-of-state, and other claims may follow different rules. Evidence may disappear long before a filing deadline, so do not use a general time period to decide whether it is safe to wait.

How We Handle a Denver Personal Injury Case

We start with the medical, evidence, insurance, and deadline issues that need prompt attention. From there, our work may include:

• Identifying responsible people and businesses, people or organizations that may hold key evidence, and potentially applicable insurance.
• Sending targeted preservation requests and obtaining available reports, video, records, and witness information.
• Reviewing the legal duties that apply to the facts.
• Organizing medical proof, wage loss, future needs, property damage, and daily-life effects.
• Consulting qualified medical, engineering, vocational, economic, or other experts when the issues require it.
• Presenting a supported demand after the injuries and losses can be responsibly evaluated.
• Negotiating with insurers and filing a lawsuit when litigation is appropriate.

We explain major decisions and keep clients informed. There is no standard timeline. Medical recovery, disputed responsibility, the number of parties and policies, expert review, settlement talks, court schedules, and whether a lawsuit is needed all affect the length. We do not rush a serious claim before major injuries and future losses can be evaluated responsibly.

What Can You Expect From Our Denver Team?

Our Denver office is at 2806 Speer Blvd, Denver, CO 80211. We offer Free Case Reviews and handle qualifying injury cases on a contingency-fee basis.

Our founding attorney, Jed Strong, previously served as in-house counsel for GEICO before representing injured people. That experience helps our team anticipate how insurers may question fault, medical treatment, whether an incident caused an injury, policy coverage, and claim value.

Colorado client Rick R. said after his car-accident case that our team was “professional and compassionate through my surgery and as I recovered,” and praised our communication. This testimonial reflects one client’s experience and does not guarantee a similar result.

We do not promise a result or use a generic average to value a case. We build each claim around the evidence, applicable law, available insurance, and documented losses.