Greenwood Village Personal Injury Attorneys

Most Colorado personal injury attorneys work on contingency, meaning you pay nothing upfront and no fee at all unless they recover money for you. The standard fee runs 33% to 40% of the settlement or verdict, depending on whether the case settles or goes to trial. At Jordan Law, we cover all case costs as well, so injured clients never write a check out of pocket.

Pain and suffering damages are worth pursuing when your injury has meaningfully disrupted your life — chronic pain, lost mobility, anxiety, sleep loss, or inability to do things you used to enjoy. Colorado law allows recovery for these non-economic harms, and they often exceed your medical bills in serious cases. If an insurer is ignoring this part of your claim, you’re leaving real money on the table.

Soft tissue injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and chronic pain conditions are the hardest to prove because they don’t always show up cleanly on imaging. Insurers routinely dispute them. Winning these cases requires detailed medical records, treating physician testimony, and often neuropsychological testing or expert witnesses. This is where experienced trial attorneys separate from settlement mills — documentation and expert work make or break the claim.

Four elements must be proven: duty (the defendant owed you reasonable care), breach (they failed to meet that standard), causation (their breach directly caused your injury), and damages (you suffered measurable harm). Miss any one element and the claim collapses. Colorado also follows modified comparative fault, so if you’re found 50% or more responsible, you recover nothing — making thorough investigation critical.

Colorado recognizes economic damages (medical bills, lost wages, future earning capacity, property damage) and non-economic damages (pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life). In cases involving egregious conduct — drunk driving, gross negligence — punitive damages may also apply. Wrongful death claims allow surviving family to recover separately. A thorough case evaluation identifies every category of recovery available to you.

Almost never. First offers typically represent 40-60% of what a case is actually worth, and insurers bank on injured people accepting quickly because they need the money. Once you sign a release, the case is over — no matter what medical problems surface later. Before accepting anything, have an experienced trial attorney evaluate the offer against your full damages, including future care costs. See our Steps to Negotiating An Insurance Settlement.