Denver Personal Injury Lawyers — Felicetti Law Firm, Colorado

Denver sits where a plains interstate meets a mountain one, and the traffic behaves accordingly. I-25 and I-70 cross north of downtown at an interchange local drivers have called the Mousetrap for sixty years, the I-70 mountain corridor fills and empties every weekend, and winter turns routine commutes into multi-vehicle pile-ups several times a season.

Three Years for a Crash, Two for Everything Else

Colorado is unusual in giving motor vehicle claims a longer period than other injuries. A claim arising from the operation of a motor vehicle carries three years; general negligence claims carry two.

That difference sounds helpful and occasionally is not, because it invites people to assume the longer period applies. A fall on an icy stairwell, a dog bite, a defective product and a construction injury are all two-year claims in Colorado even though a collision on the same day would have been three.

The 182-Day Government Notice

The Colorado Governmental Immunity Act requires written notice of a claim against a public entity within 182 days of discovering the injury. It is a jurisdictional requirement: a court cannot hear the case without it, and there is no general discretion to excuse a late notice.

RTD buses and light rail, CDOT road conditions, city vehicles, county snowplows and public university claims all depend on it. Six months feels like a long time until the injured person spends five of them in treatment.

Fifty Percent Ends a Colorado Claim

Colorado applies modified comparative negligence with a fifty percent bar. A claimant whose share of fault is fifty percent or more recovers nothing; below that, the award is reduced by their percentage.

Colorado sits on the stricter side of that line, like Georgia and unlike Texas, Illinois or New Jersey where an even split still pays. In a winter multi-vehicle collision, where fault is often genuinely spread across several drivers, those few percentage points are not academic.

The Sherman Street Office

The office covers Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson, Douglas and Boulder counties, and the firm takes Colorado claims from Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Pueblo, Greeley and the Western Slope. Work includes car and highway collisions, commercial truck crashes on the I-70 and I-76 freight corridors, motorcycle claims, cyclist and pedestrian injuries, slip and fall cases including snow and ice claims, construction accidents, workers’ compensation and wrongful death.

Free Denver Case Review

If an RTD vehicle, a state highway condition or any public entity is in the picture, the deadline that governs your case is 182 days, not three years. Call (800) 333-1988 or contact the firm online. Consultations are free and the fee is contingent on a recovery.

Call (800) 333-1988 — Free Colorado Case Review

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Colorado deadlines and fault rules are summarised here in general terms and have exceptions. Not legal advice; no attorney-client relationship is formed by reading this page. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Colorado matters are handled by attorneys licensed in Colorado.