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Brighton Wrongful Death Lawyers Who Carry the Legal Weight So Your Family Does Not Have To

When a death in Brighton or anywhere in Adams County results from someone else's negligence, the Colorado Wrongful Death Act gives surviving spouses, children, and parents the right to pursue civil accountability. CGH Injury Lawyers serves Brighton families from our Denver office, manages every deadline and standing requirement under Colorado law, and is ready to try your case at the Adams County District Court in Brighton when an insurer refuses to be fair. No fee unless we win.

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  • Colorado's Wrongful Death Act, codified at C.R.S. 13-21-201 through 13-21-204, gives surviving family members the right to pursue civil compensation when negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct causes a death in Brighton or anywhere in Adams County.
  • Standing to file follows a strict priority order. In the first year after the death, only the surviving spouse may bring a claim. Children gain the right to file in the second year, and parents may file only if no spouse or children survive. Siblings were added by HB 24-1472 as a last-resort class when no other eligible family member exists.
  • The general filing deadline is two years from the date of death (C.R.S. 13-80-102). If a government entity is involved, a written notice of claim must be filed within 182 days of discovering the injury (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)), a separate and shorter clock that must be tracked at the same time.

Brighton is a city of 40,083 people (2020 Census) in Adams County, positioned at the convergence of Interstate 76, US Highway 85, and State Highway 7. Those three corridors carry commuter traffic, commercial freight, and agricultural vehicles through the same set of intersections every day, producing recurring fatal-crash risk. When a death on I-76, US-85, SH-7, or anywhere else in Adams County results from someone else's negligence, a family suddenly faces a complex law while still in shock. CGH Injury Lawyers handles that law on your behalf: we confirm who holds standing to file, track every applicable deadline, calculate every category of damages under the Wrongful Death Act, and try your case at the Adams County District Court in Brighton if an insurer refuses to pay what your family is owed. You pay nothing unless we recover for you.

Who has the right to file

Who can bring a wrongful death claim after a Brighton death?

Colorado law sets a precise order of who may file a wrongful death lawsuit and when. Families who wait too long or file in the wrong order risk losing the claim entirely. These rules apply the same way whether the death happened on I-76 at a commercial truck interchange, on US-85 through Brighton's business corridor, or at a property within Adams County.

  1. Year one: the surviving spouse holds exclusive standing

    During the twelve months immediately following the death, only the surviving spouse has the right to file a wrongful death lawsuit under C.R.S. 13-21-201. That right is exclusive. It exists even when adult children, parents, or siblings are equally grief-stricken and equally willing to pursue accountability. The spouse may choose to bring children into the claim as co-plaintiffs, but that choice belongs to the spouse alone during the first year. A child who files before the first year expires, when a surviving spouse exists, may jeopardize the entire claim on procedural grounds. We confirm the standing picture at the start of every Brighton wrongful death engagement so a technicality never costs an Adams County family their recovery.

  2. Year two: children gain the right to file

    If the surviving spouse does not file within the first year, or if there is no surviving spouse, the deceased's children gain the right to file during the second year. In year two, both the surviving spouse and the children may bring claims. The two-year statute of limitations under C.R.S. 13-80-102 runs from the date of death, not the date a family understands its legal options. Action must be taken before that window closes regardless of which family member holds standing. Waiting for a criminal case, an insurance investigation, or a final police report to conclude before consulting an attorney can cost a Brighton family its right to file.

  3. Parents, when no spouse or children survive

    Parents of the deceased may file a wrongful death claim only if there is no surviving spouse and no surviving children. This situation arises most often when the victim was a young single adult without children of their own. In Adams County wrongful death cases involving a victim with no family of their own, the parents become the sole claimants and the only people who can hold the at-fault party accountable in civil court.

  4. Siblings, under HB 24-1472

    Under HB 24-1472, siblings were added to the list of eligible wrongful death claimants, but only as a last-resort class. A sibling may file only if the deceased left no surviving spouse, no surviving children, and no surviving parents. This change closed a gap in Colorado law that previously left some families with no legal recourse at all when an unmarried, childless adult with no surviving parents was killed by someone else's negligence.

Because the standing hierarchy is time-sensitive from the moment of death, confirming who holds the right to file should happen as early as possible after a fatal incident in Brighton or Adams County. We map the standing hierarchy against the two-year filing deadline and the separate 182-day government-notice clock at the very beginning of every engagement, so no procedural misstep undercuts a Brighton family's right to recovery.

The rules of the claim

Colorado wrongful death law decoded for Brighton families

Wrongful death cases involve a different body of statutes than ordinary personal injury claims. Several of those statutes quietly determine how much a family can recover, what the filing deadline is, and whether recovery is available at all. Here are the ones that most directly shape a Brighton wrongful death claim.

Deadlines that cannot be missed

  • The general wrongful death filing deadline is two years from the date of death (C.R.S. 13-80-102). Missing that deadline ends the claim with very few exceptions.
  • If a Colorado government entity caused or contributed to the death, such as a City of Brighton maintenance failure, an Adams County vehicle, or a CDOT road condition on I-76, a formal written notice of claim must be served within 182 days of discovering the injury under C.R.S. 24-10-109(1). That notice clock runs from the date of discovery, not the date of the death itself. Missing the notice permanently bars the claim against that government entity, even when the underlying facts are strong.
  • The standing hierarchy imposes its own internal timeline alongside the two-year SOL. The first-year spouse-only window, and the transition to children in year two, must be tracked in parallel with the filing deadline. Missing either window has consequences that cannot be undone.

Damages and caps

  • Economic damages, including lost income and benefits, medical bills between the injury and the death, funeral and burial costs, and the value of lost household services, are not subject to any cap under Colorado law. This is often where the largest portion of a family's recovery is built.
  • Non-economic damages, meaning the grief, loss of companionship, and emotional suffering of the survivors, are capped at $2,125,000 for wrongful death claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025 (C.R.S. 13-21-203(1)(a)). The cap is removed entirely when the death resulted from a felonious killing.
  • Under Colorado's modified comparative fault rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111), a family can still recover even if the deceased was partly at fault, as long as the deceased's share of fault was less than 50 percent. If the deceased is found to be 50 percent or more at fault, the claim is barred entirely. Insurers routinely try to inflate fault percentages attributed to the person who died to reduce or eliminate a family's recovery, particularly in highway crash cases where lane position, speed, and following distance are contested.

Economic damages in a wrongful death case often represent the majority of the total claim value, because they are completely uncapped and include decades of projected lost earnings. For a Brighton family that lost a working parent who commuted on I-76 or US-85 every day, the projected income loss alone can far exceed the non-economic cap. Building a complete economic damages picture, with vocational analysis and present-value calculations from a forensic economist, is one of the most important steps in any Adams County wrongful death case. We retain the right experts before we open any settlement discussion.

A strategic choice for surviving spouses

The solatium election: a guaranteed payment instead of proving grief at trial

Colorado law gives a surviving spouse, and in some cases parents, an alternative to fighting over non-economic damages in front of an Adams County jury. Under C.R.S. 13-21-203.5, a claimant may elect a fixed statutory solatium payment for grief and loss of companionship instead of attempting to prove and quantify those losses through contested evidence at trial.

  • The statutory solatium amount for claims accruing on or after January 1, 2024 is $135,990 (C.R.S. 13-21-203.5). This is a fixed figure paid in addition to economic damages once liability is established. HB 24-1472 ended further inflation adjustments to the solatium amount, so this figure does not increase automatically going forward.
  • Electing solatium serves as a privacy shield. In a traditional non-economic damages claim, the defense may conduct invasive discovery into the quality and closeness of the marriage or parent-child relationship through depositions and requests for private communications. Solatium bypasses that process entirely, which many Brighton families find important when grief is still raw and the idea of a defense attorney probing private family details is intolerable.
  • Choosing solatium does not limit economic damages in any way. Lost income, future earning capacity, funeral costs, pre-death medical bills, and all other economic categories remain fully recoverable regardless of the solatium election.

Whether to elect solatium or pursue full non-economic damages in front of an Adams County jury at the 17th Judicial District courthouse in Brighton is a strategic decision that depends on the specific facts of the case, the strength of the relationship evidence, and the at-fault party's resources. We walk every Brighton family through that decision with a clear analysis of the tradeoffs so the choice is made with complete information.

Local Knowledge

Brighton courts. Brighton trauma care. Brighton roads where fatal crashes happen.

A wrongful death claim arising from a Brighton death runs through Adams County institutions: the courthouse where a lawsuit is filed, the hospital where emergency care was attempted, and the roads and corridors where fatal crashes occur most often. Knowing that ground in detail shapes how we investigate a case, what evidence we preserve first, and how we present the claim to an Adams County jury.

Courthouse

Adams County District Court, Brighton (17th Judicial District)

A wrongful death lawsuit arising in Brighton that exceeds the county-court jurisdictional limit is filed at the Adams County District Court, located at 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton, CO 80601, within the 17th Judicial District of Colorado. Brighton is the seat of Adams County, so the District Court sits within the city itself. This is a meaningful distinction from other Adams County communities such as Thornton, Westminster, and Commerce City, all of which also file at this same Brighton courthouse but whose residents drive to a court outside their own city. A Brighton wrongful death case draws from a local Adams County jury pool with its own character, and the defense firms that regularly appear in the 17th Judicial District are familiar to us. We file wrongful death cases in Adams County District Court and handle distribution hearings there when a family reaches a recovery.

Trauma Care

Platte Valley Medical Center

Platte Valley Medical Center is the primary hospital serving Brighton and the surrounding Adams and Weld County communities. When a fatal crash on I-76, US-85, or SH-7 sends a victim to Platte Valley, the medical records from that facility become central evidence in both the wrongful death claim and any parallel survival action. Emergency room reports, imaging studies, surgical records, nursing notes, and discharge or death summaries document the nature and severity of the injury and the timeline leading to death. When injuries exceed Platte Valley's capacity and a transfer to a Denver-area Level I trauma center such as Denver Health Medical Center is arranged, records are created at multiple institutions. We obtain every treatment record from every facility involved from the beginning of every Brighton wrongful death engagement, and we retain medical experts to translate those records into evidence an Adams County jury can understand and act on.

Roads Where Fatal Crashes Happen

Interstate 76, US Highway 85, and State Highway 7

Brighton sits at the convergence of three corridors, and each one generates a distinct type of fatal-crash risk. Interstate 76 runs east-west through Adams County, connecting Brighton to the Denver metro and extending toward northeastern Colorado. I-76 carries a mix of commuter traffic, commercial delivery vehicles, and long-haul freight at highway speeds, creating conditions where rear-end collisions and sideswipe crashes at merge points produce severe and fatal outcomes. When a commercial carrier is involved, liability can extend beyond the driver to the trucking company, the cargo owner, and the maintenance contractor, and those chains must be traced from day one before records disappear. US Highway 85 runs north-south through Brighton as a primary commercial freight route, with regular semi-truck, agricultural equipment, and oversized vehicle traffic that raises stopping-distance demands at controlled and uncontrolled intersections beyond what most drivers anticipate. Left-turn conflicts at US-85 crossings are a documented source of serious and fatal injuries in this part of Adams County. State Highway 7 is a regional connector between Brighton and other Front Range communities, generating commuter traffic alongside slower-moving agricultural and commercial vehicles. Speed-limit transitions along SH-7 as it moves between open highway and Brighton's commercial zones are locations where following-distance miscalculations produce high-impact crashes. The intersections where these three routes cross each other or cross Brighton's local road network are where the severity of impacts tends to be highest and the questions of fault can be genuinely disputed by insurers.

Two distinct legal claims

Wrongful death claim vs. survival action: Brighton families often have both

A single fatal incident in Brighton or Adams County frequently gives rise to two separate legal claims that serve different purposes and distribute any recovery through different channels. They are typically filed together to capture every available category of loss.

For the surviving family

The wrongful death claim

Brought by eligible family members, in the priority order the Colorado Wrongful Death Act sets, for the losses those survivors personally experienced. This includes the lost financial support the deceased would have provided, loss of companionship, grief, and emotional suffering. The surviving family members control this claim, including whether to settle, elect the solatium option, or take the case to an Adams County jury at 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton.

For the estate

The survival action

Brought on behalf of the deceased's estate for losses the deceased personally suffered before passing. These include pre-death medical bills at Platte Valley Medical Center or a Denver-area trauma center, wages lost between the injury and the death, and pain and suffering the deceased endured. Proceeds from the survival action flow through the estate and are distributed under the will or under Colorado intestacy law if no will exists.

To illustrate: a Brighton resident struck by a semi-truck on US-85 survives for three days at Platte Valley Medical Center before dying. The pain and suffering of those three days, and the medical bills incurred during that time, belong to the survival action. The twenty or more years of income and household support that family members would have received belongs to the wrongful death claim. Filing both together in Adams County District Court ensures nothing is left out of the recovery. We evaluate both claims at the outset of every Brighton wrongful death engagement.

Why CGH

Why Brighton families choose CGH Injury Lawyers for wrongful death claims

Wrongful death cases require preparation that goes beyond an ordinary personal injury claim: standing analysis, economic modeling of future income loss, the solatium election decision, probate coordination for survival actions, and distribution hearings at the end. We handle all of it. We are also honest about one thing from the first call: CGH Injury Lawyers does not have a Brighton office. We serve Adams County from our Denver office and come to you. What you receive is thorough legal work, not a local storefront.

Trial-Ready

Built to try your case at the Adams County District Court.

Managing Partner Kevin Cheney is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has tried over 25 cases to verdict. When a wrongful death attorney is genuinely prepared to try a case in front of an Adams County jury at 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton, insurers respond to demand letters very differently than they would otherwise. The credibility of a trial threat drives settlement value in every wrongful death case we handle.

Colorado-Licensed Attorneys

Not a paralegal. Not a call center.

Every Brighton wrongful death case is handled by a licensed Colorado attorney from start to finish. Managing Partner Kevin Cheney holds ABOTA membership and has tried over 25 cases to verdict. Timothy G. Tarr has been recognized by Best Lawyers every year since 2023. Both attorneys know how to present a wrongful death damages case to an Adams County jury and how to negotiate from that position of strength.

17th Judicial District

Adams County courts in Brighton.

Wrongful death lawsuits arising in Brighton are filed in Adams County District Court within the 17th Judicial District, located right in Brighton at 1100 Judicial Center Dr. We file there, appear there, and handle distribution hearings there when a family reaches a recovery.

Honest About Location

Serving Brighton from Denver.

CGH Injury Lawyers does not have a Brighton office. Our office is at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. We serve Adams County families and meet you wherever works for you. Call (303) 209-9395 any time.

Bilingual

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Spanish-speaking attorneys and staff serve Brighton and the broader Adams County Spanish-speaking community through every stage of a wrongful death claim, from the first call through the final distribution hearing.

No Win, No Fee

Contingency only. No upfront cost.

You pay nothing out of pocket for legal fees or case costs. We advance expenses and collect only from a settlement or jury verdict in your favor. A Brighton family in the middle of grief and financial disruption should not have to worry about legal bills at the same time.

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After a wrongful death

What to do after a wrongful death in Brighton

Grief comes first. But the legal clocks start running immediately, and a Brighton family that waits too long can lose the right to hold anyone accountable. These are the steps we walk Adams County families through from the first call.

  1. Secure the evidence before it disappears

    In Brighton highway fatal crash cases on I-76 or US-85, critical evidence can vanish within days. Electronic data from a commercial truck's black box, dashcam footage, surveillance video from businesses along the US-85 corridor, and CDOT traffic-camera records may be overwritten or deleted unless a preservation demand is served quickly. When a commercial carrier is involved, we issue litigation hold letters to the trucking company and its maintenance contractor at the start of every engagement.

  2. Gather all medical records from every facility

    Treatment records from Platte Valley Medical Center and any Denver-area trauma center the patient was transferred to are the evidentiary foundation of both the wrongful death claim and any parallel survival action. We obtain every record, every imaging study, and every bill from every treating facility, and we retain medical experts to translate those records into evidence an Adams County jury can act on.

  3. Identify the government entity deadline if one applies

    If a City of Brighton road defect, an Adams County vehicle, a CDOT condition on I-76, or any other government actor contributed to the death, the 182-day notice of claim requirement under C.R.S. 24-10-109(1) runs from the date the injury was discovered and is entirely separate from the two-year wrongful death statute of limitations. We identify every potentially liable party at the outset because missing the government notice deadline closes that avenue of recovery permanently, with no correction possible.

  4. Confirm who holds standing and get the right claimant on file

    The first-year spouse-only rule means we need to know immediately whether a surviving spouse exists and whether they intend to file. If there is no surviving spouse, we establish exactly when children gain standing to act under the two-year SOL. We map the standing hierarchy against the filing deadline at the beginning of every Brighton wrongful death engagement.

  5. Build the full economic damages picture

    Economic damages are uncapped in a Colorado wrongful death case and frequently represent the majority of the claim's total value. We work with forensic economists to project the lost income and benefits the deceased would have earned over a full remaining work-life expectancy, calculate the present value of those future losses, and document every additional economic category including funeral costs, household services, and the pre-death medical bills that belong to the survival action.

  6. Negotiate or litigate in Adams County District Court

    Most Brighton wrongful death claims resolve through settlement or mediation once the insurer understands we are genuinely prepared to try the case. When an at-fault party's insurer refuses to pay the full value of the claim, we file at the Adams County District Court, 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton, CO 80601, within the 17th Judicial District, and try your case before an Adams County jury. We handle the distribution hearing as well, ensuring a fair allocation among all eligible survivors.

How Brighton families lose loved ones

Common causes of wrongful death in Brighton and Adams County

Wrongful death claims arise from many types of negligence. The causes we see most often in Brighton are shaped directly by the city's three-corridor road network, its role as an Adams County commercial hub, and the mix of agricultural and industrial activity in the surrounding area.

Commercial truck crashes on I-76 and US-85

Interstate 76 and US Highway 85 carry a sustained flow of commercial freight through Brighton, and collisions involving loaded semi-trucks produce fatal outcomes at a rate that passenger-car crashes do not. When a commercial carrier is at fault, the liability chain extends beyond the driver to the trucking company, the cargo loader, the vehicle's maintenance contractor, and the insurer behind the commercial policy. Federal trucking regulations, driver log requirements, and company safety records all become part of the investigation. Building that chain correctly from the first week of the claim is one of the most important things we do in Brighton wrongful death cases tied to a commercial vehicle.

Agricultural and construction equipment incidents

Brighton and the surrounding Adams County agricultural land mean that slow-moving farm equipment shares roads with standard traffic on corridors like US-85 and SH-7. Construction equipment serving Brighton's ongoing residential and commercial development also moves through city corridors, creating wide-load hazards and debris conditions that produce severe collisions. Crashes involving oversized or slow-moving equipment generate distinct liability questions about employer responsibility, equipment maintenance, and road-use permits that require early investigation before records are lost.

Intersection crashes at corridor crossings

The intersections where I-76, US-85, and SH-7 cross each other and Brighton's local road network concentrate merge conflicts, turning movements, and speed differentials into a small set of locations where fatal impacts occur. Left-turn crashes at unsignalized or poorly marked crossings on the US-85 commercial corridor and high-speed rear-end events at Brighton's on-ramps and off-ramps from I-76 are recurring patterns. These intersection geometries matter for liability because signal timing records, sight-line conditions, and signage maintenance histories can show whether a government entity bears partial responsibility alongside the at-fault driver.

Commercial property and premises deaths

Brighton's commercial corridors along its main business routes include retail centers, restaurants, and service businesses where property-related fatal injuries can occur year-round. Falls from inadequate railings, failures of property security that allow foreseeable violence, and structural conditions that a property owner or commercial tenant knew about but failed to address can all give rise to a wrongful death claim under Colorado's premises liability framework. Identifying the responsible property party and the insurance behind them is a critical first step.

Medical negligence

Deaths caused by surgical errors, misdiagnosis, medication mistakes, or failure to monitor a patient fall under the Colorado Wrongful Death Act when a healthcare provider's negligence caused or contributed to the death. Medical malpractice wrongful death claims carry different damage caps and procedural requirements than vehicle crash claims, including a certificate-of-review filing requirement. If a Brighton resident died following a medical event, attorney review should happen quickly because the pre-suit requirements have their own internal timelines.

Other negligence-caused deaths in Adams County

If someone in Brighton died because another party was careless or reckless, there may be a wrongful death claim available under C.R.S. 13-21-201. We will tell you honestly whether the facts support a viable claim, who holds standing to bring it, what deadlines apply, and what the realistic value of the case looks like across every damage category the Wrongful Death Act permits.

Questions

Brighton wrongful death, frequently asked questions

How long does a Brighton family have to file a wrongful death claim?

The general wrongful death filing deadline in Colorado is two years from the date of death (C.R.S. 13-80-102). If a government entity contributed to the death, such as a City of Brighton road defect, an Adams County vehicle, or a CDOT condition on I-76, a formal written notice of claim must be served within 182 days of discovering the injury under C.R.S. 24-10-109(1). That government notice clock runs from the date of discovery, not the date of death, and missing it permanently bars the claim against that entity. Both clocks, the two-year SOL and the 182-day notice requirement, must be tracked at the same time. Contact an attorney immediately after a wrongful death in Brighton so every applicable deadline is identified and protected from the start.

My spouse was killed in a Brighton crash on US-85. The insurance company says my spouse was partly at fault. Can I still recover?

In most cases, yes. Under Colorado's modified comparative fault rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111), a surviving family can still recover as long as the deceased was found to be less than 50 percent at fault. The total award is reduced by the deceased's percentage of fault. If the deceased is found to be 50 percent or more at fault, the claim is barred. Insurers on US-85 commercial truck cases routinely try to inflate the fault percentage attributed to the person who died precisely because doing so can reduce or eliminate what they owe the family. Having an attorney who challenges that fault assessment with police reports, scene evidence, and witness statements from the beginning of the claim is one of the most valuable things we do in a Brighton wrongful death case.

What is the solatium election and should a Brighton surviving spouse choose it?

Solatium under C.R.S. 13-21-203.5 lets a surviving spouse, and in some cases parents, elect a fixed statutory payment of $135,990 for grief and loss of companionship rather than proving those losses through contested evidence at trial. The appeal of solatium is privacy: a traditional non-economic damages claim exposes the relationship to invasive defense discovery, including depositions about the quality of the marriage. Solatium bypasses all of that. Electing solatium does not reduce economic damages, which remain fully recoverable without any cap. Whether solatium is the right choice for a Brighton family depends on the specific facts of the case and the evidence available. We present that decision clearly so every Adams County family can choose with complete information.

Where would a Brighton wrongful death lawsuit be filed?

A wrongful death lawsuit arising from a Brighton death is filed at the Adams County District Court, 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton, CO 80601, within the 17th Judicial District of Colorado. Brighton is the seat of Adams County, so the courthouse sits within the city itself. The court draws jurors from Adams County and operates under local procedural rules and a judicial culture that differ from Denver. We handle 17th Judicial District wrongful death cases and distribution hearings directly.

Does CGH Injury Lawyers have an office in Brighton?

No. CGH Injury Lawyers has one office, at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. We do not have a Brighton office. We serve Brighton and all of Adams County from Denver, file wrongful death lawsuits at the Adams County District Court on Judicial Center Drive, and meet Brighton families wherever is most convenient for them. Call us at (303) 209-9395 for a free, confidential consultation.

What is the difference between a wrongful death claim and a survival action in a Brighton case?

A wrongful death claim is brought by the surviving family members for the losses they personally experienced: lost financial support, loss of companionship, grief, and emotional suffering. The family members control this claim, including whether to settle or go to an Adams County jury. A survival action is brought on behalf of the deceased's estate for losses the deceased suffered before death: pre-death medical bills at Platte Valley Medical Center or a Denver trauma center, lost wages between the injury and the death, and pain and suffering the deceased endured. Proceeds from the survival action flow through the estate under the will or Colorado intestacy law. Both claims can be filed together at Adams County District Court in Brighton to capture every available category of recovery. We evaluate both at the outset of every Brighton wrongful death engagement.

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