When a Boulder doctor, surgeon, or hospital breaks the accepted standard of care and you are harmed, the law gives you a path to recovery. We represent patients and families across Boulder County, serving Boulder from our Denver office. You pay nothing unless we win.
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If a Boulder provider's negligence harmed you, the diagnosis is only the start of your case. CGH Injury Lawyers serves Boulder from our Denver office, a short drive down U.S. 36 and the Diagonal Highway. We handle the expert proof, the Certificate of Review, the insurance fight, and trial in the 20th Judicial District for Boulder County when a hospital or insurer refuses to be fair. You pay nothing unless we win.
A bad outcome is not the same as malpractice. Medical malpractice happens when a provider's negligence causes a preventable injury, meaning they did something a competent professional would have avoided. To prove it, Colorado law requires four distinct elements.
A doctor-patient relationship existed, creating a legal obligation to provide competent care.
The provider deviated from what a similarly qualified practitioner would have done. Colorado uses the locality rule, so a rural family physician is not measured against a Denver subspecialist.
The breach directly caused your injury, not simply that negligence occurred while you were under care.
You suffered measurable harm, such as physical injury, financial loss, or pain and suffering.
The breach element is usually the most contested. It almost always requires testimony from a qualified medical expert who can explain, to a jury, exactly how the care fell short. Malpractice claims are decided by a preponderance of the evidence, meaning you must show it is more likely than not that the negligence caused your harm.
Before you can move a Colorado medical malpractice case forward, you must file a Certificate of Review. Required by C.R.S. 13-20-602, it is a quality-control step meant to keep meritless claims out of court, and missing it can end your case before it starts.
This rule makes choosing the right expert one of the most important early decisions in any Boulder malpractice case. It is also why these claims demand a firm willing to invest in expert review from the very start.
A Boulder medical malpractice case lives in Boulder: the hospital and providers whose records form the proof, and the courthouse where your case may be filed. Here is the ground we work on.
Boulder Hospitals
Foothills Hospital at 4747 Arapahoe Avenue is a verified Level II Trauma Center, the first designated Level II Trauma Center in Boulder County. Care delivered at Boulder hospitals and clinics generates the medical record at the center of a malpractice claim. Those records, read against the standard of care by a same-specialty expert, are how we show what should have happened and what went wrong instead.
Public Hospitals
Some Colorado hospitals and clinics are run by public entities or employ government-affiliated providers. When that is the case, a Boulder claim can trigger the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act, which adds a short written-notice deadline on top of the regular statute of limitations. We confirm early whether a provider is public, because that one fact can change every deadline in the case.
Courthouse
Personal injury cases that arise in Boulder County are filed in the District Court for the 20th Judicial District, which serves Boulder County. The combined court sits at 1777 6th St. in Boulder, with an alternate location at 1035 Kimbark St. in Longmont. Local civil procedure and the Boulder County jury pool differ from courts in Denver and the suburbs, which is part of building the case correctly from day one.
Colorado splits medical malpractice damages into two categories. Economic losses you can document with bills and records are fully recoverable. Non-economic losses for the human cost of an injury are limited by the Health Care Availability Act (C.R.S. 13-64-302).
Colorado raised its medical malpractice damage caps effective January 1, 2025 under House Bill 24-1472. For injuries on or after that date, the non-economic cap started at $415,000 for a general malpractice claim and $555,000 for a medical malpractice wrongful death claim, and the statute schedules further increases in the years that follow. The specific figure that applies to a given case depends on the date the injury occurred.
Because non-economic damages are limited but economic damages are not, the structure of a serious case matters. A skilled attorney builds the record around the uncapped costs, such as lifetime care and lost earning capacity, which in catastrophic cases often carry far more value than the capped category.
Colorado medical malpractice cases run on strict clocks. You generally have two years from when you discovered the injury to file, with an absolute three-year cutoff from the date of the negligence (C.R.S. 13-80-102.5). Some Boulder cases also require formal notice before you can even file.
Because expert review and the Certificate of Review add time on the front end, waiting until a deadline is close is one of the most common ways a strong Boulder case is lost. The safe move is to have a lawyer evaluate the timeline early.
Trial-ready attorneys, the resources to fund expert review, bilingual help, and no fee unless we win. We do not publish malpractice settlement figures, because every case is different and a number on a page tells you nothing about yours. What we offer is the work, not a headline.
The Certificate
A same-specialty physician must support your Certificate of Review within 60 days of filing (C.R.S. 13-20-602). We line up that expert from the start, not at the deadline.
Serving Boulder
We serve Boulder from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, and we handle cases filed in the 20th Judicial District for Boulder County. Your attorney does the work, not a call-center intake screen.
We Front the Costs
Malpractice cases are expensive to prove. We advance the expert and investigation costs so you do not have to.
Uncapped Damages
Medical bills, lost income, and future care costs have no cap in Colorado, and they often carry the most value in a serious case.
Trial-Ready
Managing Partner Kevin Cheney is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has tried over 25 cases to verdict. When attorneys are genuinely ready to try a case in the 20th Judicial District, hospitals and their insurers respond differently to a demand.
Bilingual
Spanish-speaking staff and attorneys serve Boulder's Spanish-speaking community.
No Win, No Fee
You pay nothing out of pocket for legal fees. We advance costs and collect only from a settlement or verdict.
One honest thing we will tell you up front: we do not sign malpractice cases we cannot honestly stand behind. If the medical evidence does not support a breach of the standard of care, we will say so in the free review rather than sign you up and let the case stall. When the proof is on your side, we fight hard. When it is not, you deserve to hear that early, for free.
Medical malpractice cases are among the most expensive and document-heavy claims in personal injury law. We prepare every case as if it will be tried, even though most resolve before a courtroom.
We review what happened, explain your rights, and tell you honestly whether the case looks viable, at no cost.
We gather the full medical record and retain a same-specialty physician to evaluate the standard of care and support the Certificate of Review.
We send any required pre-suit notice, file your complaint in the 20th Judicial District, and file the Certificate of Review within the 60-day window.
We build the record through depositions and expert discovery, then calculate your full economic and non-economic damages in a documented demand.
Most cases settle here. We negotiate from a position of trial readiness, not from a willingness to take the first offer.
When a hospital or insurer refuses a fair resolution, our trial lawyers are prepared to present your case to a Boulder County jury.
We work on a contingency fee. You pay nothing unless we win, and we advance the investigation costs and expert witness fees these cases require so you can focus on healing.
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Hospitals and their insurers defend malpractice claims hard. They reach for the same arguments early, and knowing what each one actually requires is how we keep a valid Boulder claim alive.
A bad outcome is not automatically malpractice. The defense argues the harm was a recognized complication you consented to. We answer with a same-specialty expert who separates an accepted risk from a genuine breach of the standard of care, which is the line the case turns on.
Causation is often the hardest element. Insurers argue your underlying condition, not the provider, caused the harm. We answer with expert testimony tying the breach directly to your injury, proving it is more likely than not that the negligence caused the result.
The defense looks for a missed deadline under the two-year discovery rule, the three-year repose period, or, when a public hospital is involved, the 182-day notice requirement (C.R.S. 24-10-109). We answer by documenting when you discovered the injury and preserving the dates that keep the claim timely.
Because non-economic damages are capped but economic damages are not, a well-built Boulder case focuses on the uncapped losses, such as lifetime care costs and lost earning capacity, which in catastrophic cases often carry far more value than the capped category. We structure the demand around those documented, uncapped costs.
Personal injury cases that arise in Boulder County are filed in the District Court for the 20th Judicial District, which serves Boulder County. The combined court sits at 1777 6th St. in Boulder, with an alternate location at 1035 Kimbark St. in Longmont. Most malpractice claims settle before trial, but where a case would be filed affects the local rules, the jury pool, and which adjusters and defense firms you face. We handle these cases directly while serving Boulder from our Denver office.
You must prove four elements: that a provider owed you a duty of care, that they breached the accepted standard of care through negligence, that the breach directly caused your injury, and that you suffered measurable damages. The breach element almost always requires testimony from a qualified medical expert, and the case is decided by a preponderance of the evidence, meaning it is more likely than not that the negligence caused your harm.
A Certificate of Review is a written statement from a same-specialty physician confirming that your claim does not lack substantial justification (C.R.S. 13-20-602). It must be filed with the court within 60 days of your complaint. Missing that deadline can get your case dismissed absent a narrow statutory exception, which is why expert selection happens early in a Boulder malpractice case.
Generally two years from when you discovered, or should have discovered, the injury, with an absolute three-year deadline from the date of the negligence (C.R.S. 13-80-102.5). Narrow exceptions exist, such as a foreign object left in the body or concealment. If a government-run hospital or other public entity is involved, you must also file a written notice of claim within 182 days of discovering the injury (C.R.S. 24-10-109), so talk to a lawyer promptly.
Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering under the Health Care Availability Act (C.R.S. 13-64-302). House Bill 24-1472 raised the caps effective January 1, 2025 and set further annual increases. Economic damages, including medical bills, lost wages, and future care costs, are not capped. The cap figure that applies depends on the date of the injury.
Often yes, especially in serious cases. Because economic damages have no cap, a well-built case focuses on uncapped losses such as lifetime care costs, ongoing medical needs, and lost earning capacity, which in catastrophic cases can far exceed the non-economic limit. We structure the demand around those documented, uncapped costs.
No. CGH Injury Lawyers has one office, at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. We serve Boulder and Boulder County medical malpractice clients from that office, file in the 20th Judicial District, and meet you wherever is convenient. Call (303) 209-9395 or submit the form on this page. Consultations are free and confidential, in English and Spanish.
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