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5 Kinds of Evidence for a Colorado Personal Injury Claim

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An injury doesn’t just cause physical pain. Injuries can seriously upset the balance of your life and cause you undue financial and emotional stress. Whether the injury is due to a car accident, a slip or fall, or a bicycle accident, costly medical bills, lost wages, and emotional suffering are all unfortunate and likely consequences. […]

4 Signs Your Personal Injury Attorney is Not the Right Fit to Help with Filing a Claim in Colorado

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The services of a personal injury attorney are necessary if you have been injured because of someone else’s negligence and seek to recover compensation for medical expenses, lost wages and other damages. Filing a claim in Colorado without legal counsel could result in receiving a low settlement or no settlement at all because you could […]

Distracted Driving is Negligent (Perhaps Reckless) Driving

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Distracted drivers are a major hazard to Colorado motorists. Thousands of people are injured and many killed on Colorado roads as a result of distracted driving every year. What is a distracted driver? Take a look around next time you are driving and they are easy to spot. Here’s a short list of activities performed […]

What Qualifications Should Your Colorado Accident Lawyer Have?

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Experience. Longer is usually better. But you should ask questions that might give you clues about the quality of the experience. Does the lawyer have 15 years of experience or does the lawyer have 1 year of experience 15 times? A lawyer should grow and develop, and learn how to handle cases better, more efficiently, […]

How can I get my car fixed or replaced?

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Most of our clients handle their property damage and losses without our assistance. However, at the Law Office of D.J. Banovitz, as a courtesy to our clients we never charge a fee for helping settle property damage claims. Property damage claims are not limited to the damage to your car but to anything in the […]

Common Misconceptions About Personal Injury Claims

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Insurance companies make it a practice to treat people fairly. If you are fair with the insurance company, it will be fair with you. Colorado Juries are always fair and always render verdicts that fairly compensate accident victims. If you are in an accident and the insurance company asks for a recorded statement, you have […]

Can You Settle Your Case Yourself?

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Many small injury cases are best handled by the client. Although insurance industry studies have demonstrated that people represented by lawyers get more money for their claims, we will not accept cases with little to no property damage and minor connective tissue (soft tissue) injuries that resolve in a few weeks. Why not? We only […]

Seven Costly Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Colorado Injury Case

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The following are what I consider to be 7 most costly mistakes that can ruin your Colorado injury case. With the exception of failing to call the cops, these costly mistakes apply to all injury cases. This is based on my years of experience in handling these cases, litigating hundreds of cases, and experience and […]