How Our Office has Been Affected by the Pandemic The current pandemic (Covid-19) has changed so much about our lives from how our children attend school to how we do our jobs. While my profession has been considered to be a necessary business since the beginning, allowing us to stay open and work with our… Read more »
A Computer Program that Reprices Medical Bills In the first part of this series, I discussed the new apps that insurance companies are advertising and how those apps could be used against you by either your insurer, or another party’s insurer if you are involved in a wreck. In this second part I want to… Read more »
Apps Can Track Your Driving Habits I have been seeing insurers rolling out all of their new gadgets lately and I have become very concerned with some of the things they are doing. It’s wonderful that our technology is advancing and it’s clear that insurers are trying to use that technology to their advantage. One… Read more »
Common Law In this final Part III of my series on Impeachment (read Part I here and Part II here), we are looking at what constitutes High Crimes and Misdemeanors. When I began law school, one of the first things we were taught is the history of the law and the genesis of the “common… Read more »
The Senate’s Role As we approach the time that the House is finalizing its work and potentially voting to send the impeachment case to the Senate it’s time to take a look at what the Senate’s part is in all of this. In essence, the Senate’s job is to have a trial where all 100… Read more »
Contemplating the Idea of Impeachment As I’ve been watching history unfold before our eyes, I’ve found myself contemplating the idea of impeachment. In doing so I started wondering about the specifics of impeachment since everyone seems to be throwing their two cents in concerning how impeachment should be conducted, whether there is due process rights… Read more »
One of the most traumatic things that can happen in anyone’s life is losing a loved one. It’s bad enough when we lose someone because of old age or a disease or illness, but the pain and agony is amplified when a loved one dies because of another person’s negligence. When this happens, the last… Read more »
In Colorado we take a little different approach to injuries that occur on other people’s property than a lot of other states. Years ago our legislature decided to enact what is referred to as the Premises Liability Act. It is a statute that deals solely with the responsibilities that a landowner has to individuals who… Read more »
One of the struggles that people have when they get injured on the job is whether to tell their employers about the injury. It’s not surprising that people feel this way. The majority of the time an employee is just doing their work and something happens; they lift a box wrong, they pull on a… Read more »
In my practice, the statutory offer is such an important piece of information to provide to clients that I generally go over it at least three times – once when the client signs up with me, once when we start litigation (this one we do in writing) and finally when we are getting ready or… Read more »
