Colorado Trial Practice Blog
The main focus of this blog is Colorado personal injury litigation and trial practice. Mac Hester, the author of this blog, is a plaintiff’s attorney in Fort Collins Colorado and Of Counsel to Bachus & Shanker, LLC, a plaintiff’s personal injury firm in Denver, Colorado.
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Recent Articles
Personal Injury Claims & Related Claims
Personal injury claims are quite diverse. I represent injured persons by the type of claim (e.g., semi-truck accidents), the type of injury (e.g., traumatic brain injury), and by claims that are not literally personal injury claims but that are related to or arise out of personal injury...
Personal Injury Plaintiffs
I sometimes have clients who express embarassment or reluctance in pursuing a claim for personal injury damages. I ask them why they would be embarassed or reluctant to pursue the claim. They usually don't have a definite reason. Rather, they have a feeling that there is something wrong about it -...
Personal Injury Lawyer - Trial Lawyer
I have conducted psychological/sociological experiments at parties and social functions: I mingle and talk and almost every conversation involves the question - whether asked of me or by me - "What do you do?" I usually answer that I am a lawyer or that I...
Car Accident - Personal Injury - What to Do - What Not to Do
If you are in a car accident and the car is damaged and/or you are injured (or someone else's car is damaged and/or someone else is injured), then the drivers are required by law to do certain things. C.R.S. 42-4-1601(1): A driver involved in a car crash in which someone is injured is...
Car Accident - What to Do; What Not to Do
If you are in a car accident and the car is damaged and/or you are injured (or someone else's car is damaged and/or someone else is injured), then the drivers are required by law to do certain things. C.R.S. 42-4-1601(1): A driver involved in a car crash in which someone is injured is...
Evidence of Liability Insurance: Rule 411 Misconceptions
All judges and almost all lawyers think that evidence of liability insurance is generally not admissible at trial. However, they are wrong. Colorado Rule of Evidence 411 provides that evidence of liability insurance is admissible for any reason in the world - except one: to show...
Recovery of Money Damages - Personal Injury
There are three categories of damages in Colorado: (1) Economic; (2) Non-Economic; and (3) Physical Impairment. ECONOMIC Medical Expenses: (1) Past; (2) Future. Wage/Income Loss: (1) Past; (2) Loss of Earning Capacity/Loss of Future Wages/Income. Incidental expenses. Other...
Insurance Bad Faith - First Party
Your own insurance company owes a duty of good faith and fair dealing to you, its insured, because of your contract (the insurance policy) with the insurance company and because it is the law of Colorado. This is a "first party" contract. The insurance company for...
Bicycle Laws: Operation of Bicycles
42-4-1412. Operation of bicycles and other human-powered vehicles. (1) Every person riding a bicycle shall have all of the rights and duties applicable to the driver of any other vehicle under this article, except as to special regulations in this article and except as to those provisions which by...
Bicycle Bike Accident Injury
Automobile drivers don't pay much attention to bicyclists and the result can be devastating to the bicyclist, as bicycles and helmets provide very limited protection against injury in an automobile/bicycle accident. There are many ways that bicyclists get whacked by inattentive or rude...

