Author: Jim Gigax

Jury enters verdict for insurer, against policyholder, for over $800,000

In the case of Sunflower Condo. Ass’n v. Owners Ins. Co., No. 16-cv-02946 (D. Colo. 2018), a homeowners association submitted an inflated claim for hail damage. The matter eventually entered the lawsuit stage, and the insurer asserted a counter claim against the HOA. Following a one-week trial, the jury found that Sunflower had violated the […]

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Jury awards $1M to insurer, against policy holder

This might seem like a “dog bites man” story, but it’s true. In a case called Lincoln Benefit Life Company v. Alexander Dallal and Claire Dallal, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Case No. 2:16-cv-09307-MWW, nine California jurors unanimously found that the policy holder, the Dallals, had committed insurance […]

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Auto Wreck Poem

Auto Wreck By Karl Shapiro (1942) Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating, And down the dark one ruby flare Pulsing out red light like an artery, The ambulance at top speed floating down Past beacons and illuminated clocks Wings in a heavy curve, dips down, And brakes speed, entering the crowd. The doors leap […]

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Terrified Greyhound passengers plead with their bus driver to pull over and sleep

At some point on the 20-plus-hour bus trip between Phoenix and Dallas, passengers’ attention turned from the Southwestern scenery to what was going on in the driver’s seat. “The bus was leaning a little bit,” Philip Hurd told CBS-11 on Thursday, after he and nearly four dozen others had reached the safety of the downtown […]

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Drowsy Driving results in 72,000 Car Collisions Every Year

Drowsy Driving results in 72,000 Car Collisions Every Year Drowsy driving kills. It claimed 846 lives in 2014 according to the National Highway Traffic Administration.These reported fatalities (and drowsy-driving crashes overall) have remained largely consistent across the past decade. Between 2005 and 2009 there was an estimated average of 83,000 crashes each year related to […]

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Colorado Wrongful Death: The Basics

Who May Bring a Wrongful Death Claim The parties entitled to bring a wrongful death lawsuit are limited to the decedent’s spouse, “heir or heirs,” or a “designated beneficiary.” C.R.S. § 13-21-201(1)(a) and (b). In addition, potential claimants may include the surviving parents of an unmarried and childless decedent. C.R.S. § 13-21-201(1)(c). The term “heir […]

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Insured beyond the grave

Here’s another aspect of insurance I heard from this Gospel song on the Bluegrass Junction channel. I HOW YOU CAN BUY INSURANCE FRIEND TO PAY YOU WHEN YOU’RE ILL. AND IF YOUR EARTHLY HOME SHOULD BURN, A NEW ONE YOU CAN BUILD. INSURANCE ON YOUR EARTHLY WEALTH, YOUR SILVER AND YOUR GOLD BUT READ GOD’S BOOK, […]

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Getting Document Evidence from Third Parties

Suppose you or your family were injured because of the carelessness of a “third person” as lawyers say, i.e., because someone else messed up. Suppose further that you are forced to file a lawsuit against that person and you need documents from his employer or from a corporate affiliate that is not a party to […]

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Enjoying being a Colorado and Wyoming lawyer.

There are no two better contiguous states in the country. Sure, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, or Oklahoma and Arkansas, may claim to be the best abutting states, but no informed person would accept that claim.

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Damages

Damages Injured in a Colorado auto accident  or in Wyoming?  Juries have wide discretion in awarding an amount of money to make up for what happened.  “[A] jury’s verdict will not be disturbed if there is any support for it in the record.”   Blood v. Qwest Services Corp., 224 P.3d 301, 325 (Colo. App. 2009), aff’d  252 […]

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