Denver, CO
Appeals Lawyer at Denver, CO
Practice Areas: Appeals, Environmental and Natural Resources ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Win
Medicare benefits come within the evidentiary component and the contract exception to the post-trial reduction requirement of Colorado's statutory collateral source rules. A defendant who allegedly har ... med another through negligence cannot benefit from that other person's health care benefits in order to reduce the amount of damages.
OUTCOME: Win
Taxation without representation violated due process. A developer formed a metropolitan district to fund a new project by including an existing project into the district solely to tax the older project ... to pay for the newer one even though the properties in the older project could never benefit from the taxes they would pay.
OUTCOME: Win
I served pro bono as amicus curiae counsel. This case invloved a bad faith breach of an insurance contract, and statutory unreasonable delay or denial of payment of benefits owed to an insured.
OUTCOME: Win.
A parking lot of a public golf course is an "improvement" of a "recreation area" under the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act. So our client's case could proceed.
OUTCOME: Win at Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court later reversed the case without addressing all of the holdings.
Insurance Bad Faith and statutory unreasonable delay or denial.
OUTCOME: Win
Major victory allowing client to proceed against American Family in a claim for unreasonable delay of payment of benefits American Family owed.
OUTCOME: Verdict Reinstated (win)
I filed a friend of the court brief with the Colorado Supreme Court in favor of Petitioner Holly Averyt. A jury had awarded Averyt approximately $15 million and the trial judge had granted Wal-Mart's ... motion for a new damages trial. On behalf of the Colorado Trial Lawyers' Association, I argued that the jury's verdict should be reinstated. Ms. Averyt won, the trial court's order was reversed, and the jury award was reinstated.
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