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A traumatic brain injury from a crash on US 36, the Northwest Parkway, or at a Broomfield intersection can vanish from a routine MRI while it destroys your ability to work, concentrate, and live. Insurers count on that gap. We close it with advanced medical proof, neuropsychological testing, and life-care planning that puts the full cost of the injury on the table. Serving Broomfield County from our Denver office. No fee unless we win.

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  • A traumatic brain injury from a Broomfield crash, whether mild (GCS 13 to 15) or severe (GCS 3 to 8), is classified by the Glasgow Coma Scale. That score is the starting point of your claim, not its ceiling. A mild label from the emergency room does not cap what you can recover if post-concussion symptoms cost you months of work or a permanent reduction in what you can earn.
  • Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering at $1,500,000 for claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025 (C.R.S. 13-21-102.5). Two categories are not capped: economic damages including medical bills, lost wages, and life-care plan costs, and compensation for physical impairment or disfigurement. In a severe TBI case, those uncapped categories often carry most of the value.
  • Brain injury symptoms can surface or worsen weeks after the crash. Colorado gives you a limited window to file, and if a government entity or road condition contributed to the injury on a corridor like US 36 or Wadsworth Boulevard, you must also provide written notice of your claim within 182 days of discovering the injury (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)), not of the crash date.

CGH Injury Lawyers has no Broomfield office. We serve Broomfield County from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, and we represent brain injury victims and their families throughout the 17th Judicial District. When an insurer says your scan is clean and your claim is small, we build the evidence it takes to prove otherwise: neuropsychological testing, advanced imaging, life-care plans, and vocational analysis. No fee unless we win.

Why these cases are harder

Why a Broomfield brain injury case is more difficult than a broken-bone claim

A broken arm lights up on an X-ray. A traumatic brain injury often does not. That gap is exactly where the insurer attacks, arguing that a clean CT or MRI means the injury is not real or not serious. Closing that gap takes a different kind of evidence and a legal team that understands how to present it.

The negative-scan trap

Standard CT scans catch bleeding and skull fractures. They routinely miss the diffuse axonal injuries that occur when the brain shifts inside the skull during a Broomfield crash, and those microscopic tears are exactly what causes lasting headaches, memory gaps, and mood changes. Adjusters hand a clean scan to their defense expert and argue the injury is fabricated or pre-existing. We counter with Diffusion Tensor Imaging, neuropsychological test batteries, and the testimony of people who knew the injured person before and after the crash.

  • A normal MRI is not a clean bill of health. Functional impairment documented through testing carries real legal weight in a Colorado courtroom.
  • High-speed crashes on US 36 and the Northwest Parkway, and T-bone collisions at intersections like 120th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard, produce the kind of rapid deceleration forces that cause diffuse axonal injury even without visible structural damage.
  • Insurers also argue that symptoms are pre-existing or caused by the stress of litigation, not the crash. Building a clear before-and-after record, through medical history, employer records, and witness accounts, is how we defeat that argument.
TBI classifications

How Colorado doctors grade a traumatic brain injury, and why the grade affects your claim

Medical teams classify a TBI using the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), a 15-point assessment of eye, verbal, and motor response recorded shortly after the injury. The GCS score becomes a key data point in your claim, but it measures the first hours, not the rest of your life.

  1. Mild TBI (GCS 13 to 15, often called a concussion)

    Brief loss of consciousness under 30 minutes, or disorientation without loss of consciousness. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, sensitivity to light and noise, and short-term memory problems. Mild on the scale is not mild in life. Post-concussion syndrome affects an estimated 15 to 30 percent of people with a mild TBI, lasting months or years. For Broomfield professionals in tech, healthcare, finance, or education whose careers depend on mental sharpness, even a mild GCS score can produce a large economic loss claim.

  2. Moderate TBI (GCS 9 to 12)

    Loss of consciousness lasting 30 minutes to 24 hours, often with CT or MRI abnormalities. Victims face cognitive deficits, personality changes, fatigue, and physical impairments that require months of rehabilitation. Life as it was before the crash at FlatIron Crossing, a Northwest Parkway ramp, or a Church Ranch Boulevard intersection often does not return on the same timeline that an insurer's first offer assumes.

  3. Severe TBI (GCS 3 to 8)

    Extended unconsciousness, coma, or skull fracture with brain bleeding. Survivors face permanent disability affecting movement, speech, memory, and executive function. These cases require a life-care plan that projects decades of medical needs, adaptive equipment, attendant care, and lost earning capacity from the point of injury through the victim's statistical life expectancy.

A GCS score is the starting point, not the endpoint. What matters to your claim is not the number the paramedic wrote down at the scene. What matters is how the injury changed what you can do and earn from that day forward. Our attorneys work with treating physicians, neuropsychologists, and vocational economists to translate the medical reality into a dollar figure the insurer and a jury can understand.

Colorado law

Colorado laws that control your Broomfield brain injury case

A handful of statutes set the rules for how long you have to file, how fault divides your recovery, and which parts of your damages are capped. Understanding them early prevents the most common mistakes that end a case before it starts.

Filing deadline for brain injury claims

Most brain injury claims arising from a motor vehicle crash on a Broomfield road carry a three-year filing deadline from the date of the crash (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)). General tort claims unconnected to a vehicle carry a two-year deadline (C.R.S. 13-80-102). Brain injury symptoms often emerge or worsen well after the crash, but the clock does not stop for delayed symptom onset. Talk to an attorney while you are still treating, not after the symptoms finally stabilize, so your options remain open.

Government entity notice requirement (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1))

If a government entity contributed to your brain injury, such as a dangerous road condition on US 36 or a signal failure at 160th Avenue and Huron Street, you must provide written notice of your claim within 182 days of discovering the injury. That clock runs from the date you discover the injury, not the date of the crash, but it moves fast. Missing it bars the government-entity portion of your claim entirely. The Colorado Governmental Immunity Act (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)) is not a technicality: it is a strict jurisdictional requirement.

Comparative fault (C.R.S. 13-21-111)

Colorado follows modified comparative negligence. You can recover as long as your share of fault is less than 50 percent, and your damages are reduced by your percentage. If you are found 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. A driver who hits you head-on on a Northwest Parkway ramp, or rear-ends you at the Church Ranch Boulevard exit, will face a clear liability claim. In cases where fault is disputed, early evidence gathering matters enormously because the insurer will work to push your percentage as high as possible.

Damages with no cap

  • Medical bills, past and future
  • Lost wages and lost income
  • Loss of future earning capacity
  • Life-care plan and long-term care costs
  • Rehabilitation and therapy
  • Home modifications and adaptive equipment
  • Physical impairment and disfigurement

Non-economic damages (capped)

  • Pain and suffering: capped at $1,500,000 for claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025 (C.R.S. 13-21-102.5)
  • Loss of enjoyment of life
  • Emotional distress
  • Loss of consortium for a spouse

In a severe TBI case, economic damages and the uncapped physical impairment category typically dwarf the non-economic cap in total recovery value.

Proving the injury

The evidence that proves a brain injury the insurer says isn't there

Building a winning TBI case requires layering objective test data, expert opinions, and the human story of how life changed. No single piece of evidence is enough. The strength is in the combination.

  1. Neuropsychological testing

    A multi-hour battery that measures memory, attention, processing speed, executive function, and emotional regulation against age-matched norms. The results generate objective data that answers the adjuster's claim that the injured person seems fine. A Broomfield software engineer, teacher, or healthcare worker whose cognitive output has dropped measurably after a crash has a documented claim that does not depend on visible structural damage.

  2. Advanced imaging (DTI and fMRI)

    Diffusion Tensor Imaging maps white-matter tracts and reveals the microscopic axonal tears that standard CT and MRI scans miss. Functional MRI shows the brain working harder to perform tasks that used to be automatic. Both have been recognized in Colorado litigation as probative evidence of TBI when a routine scan looks normal, which is exactly the scenario insurers exploit to minimize offers after high-speed crashes on US 36 and Northwest Parkway.

  3. Life-care plan

    A certified life-care planner projects every medical expense from the date of settlement through the victim's statistical life expectancy: physician care, rehabilitation therapy, prescription medications, durable medical equipment, home modifications, attendant care, and case management. For severe TBI cases, the life-care plan is the anchor of the economic damages claim and typically produces the largest portion of the total recovery, because it is not capped under Colorado law.

  4. Vocational expert analysis

    A vocational rehabilitation expert reviews the injured person's work history and post-injury capabilities to calculate which jobs they can still perform and at what wage. That analysis converts medical limitations into a lifetime economic loss figure, which is uncapped and often the number that drives settlement or verdict value in a mild-to-moderate TBI case where the primary loss is diminished earning capacity rather than acute medical costs.

  5. Before-and-after and day-in-the-life documentation

    Coworkers, family, neighbors, and coaches who knew the injured person before the crash testify to the change. Day-in-the-life video documentation of daily struggles humanizes the medical record and allows a Broomfield jury to understand the injury in terms that go beyond test scores and imaging reports.

Local knowledge

Broomfield courts. Broomfield trauma care. Broomfield roads.

A Broomfield brain injury case lives in Broomfield: the road where the crash happened, the trauma center that treated the injury, and the courthouse where the case may be filed. This is the ground we work on, from our Denver office.

Courthouse

Broomfield Combined Courts, 17th Judicial District

Broomfield is Colorado's 64th county and its only consolidated city-county, incorporated November 15, 2001. Brain injury lawsuits arising in Broomfield are filed in the Broomfield Combined Courts, which house the District Court, County Court, and Municipal Court at 17 Descombes Drive, Broomfield, CO 80020, within the 17th Judicial District. TBI cases filed here can take 12 to 24 months or longer to resolve, because reaching maximum medical improvement, the point where the injury is stable enough to value accurately, is a prerequisite to a full settlement in any serious brain injury matter. CGH Injury Lawyers handles Broomfield Combined Court cases directly from our Denver office. We do not have a Broomfield branch.

Trauma Care

Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital and Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital (both Level II Trauma Centers)

Broomfield County has access to two CDPHE-designated Level II Trauma Centers. Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital received recertification as a Level II Trauma Center from the American College of Surgeons. Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital achieved its Level II designation from CDPHE in June 2021, upgraded from Level III. Both facilities are positioned near the US 36 and I-25 corridors that generate Broomfield's most serious crash-related brain injuries. The emergency, neurology, and critical-care records from these centers document the acute injury and become the foundation of your damages claim. Craig Hospital in Englewood, one of the nation's top-ranked rehabilitation centers for acquired brain injury, is also within reach for Broomfield victims who require inpatient neurorehabilitation after discharge from acute care.

High-Risk Roads for Head Injuries

US 36, Northwest Parkway, SH 121 (Wadsworth Blvd), I-25, and Documented High-Crash Intersections

Broomfield's road network produces the kind of high-speed and high-force collisions that cause traumatic brain injuries. US 36 (the Denver-Boulder Turnpike) runs through the city at commuter speeds, with documented black-ice and fatal-crash risk near the Church Ranch Boulevard exit. The Northwest Parkway is a 9.05-mile limited-access toll road with both termini in Broomfield, connecting US 36 at Interlocken Loop to the I-25 and E-470 interchange, where a fatal and serious-injury road-rage crash occurred on April 8, 2024. Broomfield's 2016 Transportation Plan, using 2012-2014 crash data, identified the city's most dangerous intersections: SH 36 and Wadsworth Boulevard, 160th Avenue and Huron Street, 120th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard, and SH 287 and 10th Avenue. T-bone and rear-end crashes at these multi-lane intersections at highway speeds are among the mechanisms most likely to produce closed-head trauma with diffuse axonal injury. FlatIron Crossing's access roads along US 36 add pedestrian and parking-lot brain injury exposure to the local risk picture.

Crash Reports

Broomfield Police Department and Colorado State Patrol

A brain injury crash within Broomfield is typically documented by the Broomfield Police Department, with the Colorado State Patrol handling state highway and interstate segments. The Colorado Traffic Crash Report is the first official record of the collision and a key piece of liability evidence. We move quickly to obtain it, preserve toll-road and CDOT camera footage, and secure weather and road-condition records from CDOT when black ice, poor signal timing, or road design contributed to the mechanism of injury.

After the crash

What to do after a brain injury crash in Broomfield

Brain injury symptoms do not always appear at the scene. The steps you take in the first 24 to 72 hours protect both your health and the evidence an insurer will later challenge.

  1. Call 911 and accept medical evaluation

    Request police and emergency medical response. A Colorado Traffic Crash Report from the Broomfield Police Department or Colorado State Patrol is critical liability evidence. Accept the EMS evaluation even if you feel fine. Adrenaline suppresses pain, and concussion symptoms can be absent at the scene and disabling within hours. If headaches, confusion, vision changes, or nausea follow, go directly to Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital or Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital, both Level II Trauma Centers near Broomfield's major corridors.

  2. Document the scene immediately

    Photograph your vehicle, the other vehicle, your injuries, road markings, traffic controls, and any visible hazards before the scene is cleared. On US 36 and the Northwest Parkway, CDOT cameras and toll-road systems may have captured the crash. That footage is often overwritten within days or weeks. We move immediately to issue preservation letters when a Broomfield brain injury case comes to us early.

  3. Follow all medical appointments and document every symptom

    See a doctor within 24 to 48 hours even if you were not transported from the scene. Keep a daily symptom journal noting headaches, cognitive fog, memory lapses, sleep disturbances, and mood changes. That journal becomes admissible evidence showing the progression of post-concussion symptoms in the weeks after the crash, when the insurer will argue you recovered quickly.

  4. Know the government-entity clock

    If a road defect, signal failure, or CDOT maintenance issue on US 36 or a Broomfield intersection contributed to your crash, you must file written notice of your claim within 182 days of discovering the injury under C.R.S. 24-10-109(1). This is a separate, shorter deadline that runs alongside the general filing deadline for your personal injury claim. Missing it eliminates the government-entity portion of your recovery.

  5. Call CGH Injury Lawyers before giving any statement

    The at-fault driver's insurer may contact you within hours. Do not give a recorded statement or discuss fault before speaking with an attorney. One statement about how the crash happened, or how you are feeling, can limit your recovery under Colorado's modified comparative negligence rule. Call (303) 209-9395. Free consultation. No fee unless we win.

What you can recover

What a Broomfield brain injury victim can recover, and how fault affects the amount

Colorado law lets a brain injury victim pursue the full cost of the harm across multiple categories of damages. The categories that are not capped are often the ones that make a serious TBI case worth what it actually costs the victim.

Comparative negligence in a Broomfield TBI case (C.R.S. 13-21-111)

Colorado uses a modified comparative negligence rule. You recover as long as you are less than 50 percent at fault, and your damages are reduced proportionally by your percentage. If a Broomfield insurer pins you at exactly 30 percent for changing lanes before the crash, your recovery drops by 30 percent. If they push you to 50 percent or more, you receive nothing. This is why fault investigation matters immediately: the driver's speed on US 36, the signal phase at 120th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard, and any road hazard that contributed to the crash all affect who bears what share.

Non-economic damages cap (C.R.S. 13-21-102.5)

Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering at $1,500,000 for TBI claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025. The cap does not apply to economic damages (medical bills, lost wages, life-care plans) or to compensation for physical impairment and disfigurement. In a severe brain injury case, those uncapped categories routinely exceed the non-economic cap in total value, which is why we build the claim outward from economic loss and impairment rather than anchoring it to the pain-and-suffering number.

Punitive damages

If the driver who caused your brain injury acted with willful and wanton disregard, such as a drunk driver on US 36 or a distracted driver who ran a red light at 160th Avenue and Huron Street, you may also pursue punitive damages under C.R.S. 13-21-102. Punitive damages are capped at a 1-to-1 ratio with actual damages, though a court may increase that to up to 3 times actual damages when the defendant continues willful and wanton conduct after the lawsuit is filed.

Your team

The attorneys handling your Broomfield brain injury case

CGH Injury Lawyers is a eight-attorney Colorado firm founded in 2016, formerly Cheney Galluzzi and Howard. Managing Partner Kevin Cheney is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and has tried over 25 cases to verdict. Timothy G. Tarr has been recognized by Best Lawyers every year since 2023. Every brain injury case is personally handled by a licensed Colorado attorney, not a paralegal, from the first call through trial if that is what the case requires.

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We prepare every brain injury case as if it will be tried. Most resolve before a courtroom, but trial readiness is exactly what compels an insurer to pay the full value of a serious TBI. Settling before maximum medical improvement, the point where your condition stabilizes and doctors can project the long-term prognosis, often leaves money on the table. We are straightforward with you about where your case stands at every stage, and we will tell you honestly if a settlement offer is fair or if we should take it further.

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Questions

Broomfield brain injury, frequently asked questions

Where would my Broomfield brain injury lawsuit be filed?

A brain injury lawsuit arising from a Broomfield crash is filed in the Broomfield Combined Courts at 17 Descombes Drive, Broomfield, CO 80020, within the 17th Judicial District. Broomfield is Colorado's only consolidated city-county, so the Combined Courts handle district, county, and municipal matters under one roof. TBI cases commonly take 12 to 24 months or more because the case should not settle before maximum medical improvement, when doctors can predict the long-term prognosis. CGH Injury Lawyers handles Broomfield Combined Court cases directly from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201.

My MRI came back normal after my Broomfield crash. Do I still have a brain injury claim?

Yes, you may. Standard CT and MRI scans detect bleeding and fractures but routinely miss the diffuse axonal injuries that cause lasting post-concussion symptoms. Colorado courts recognize that the absence of visible structural damage does not prove the absence of injury. Your case may require advanced imaging such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging, a neuropsychological test battery, and expert testimony to prove functional impairment despite a normal initial scan. Insurers use clean scans to minimize offers, and we use advanced evidence to counter that strategy.

Does Colorado cap what I can recover for a brain injury from a Broomfield crash?

Partially. Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering at $1,500,000 for claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025 (C.R.S. 13-21-102.5). Economic damages, including all medical bills, lost wages, life-care plan costs, and home modifications, are not capped at all. Compensation for physical impairment and disfigurement is also not capped. In a severe TBI case, those uncapped categories routinely carry far more dollar value than the non-economic cap, because a life-care plan projecting decades of care and a lost-earning-capacity calculation often produce the largest portions of total recovery.

I was partly at fault for the crash that caused my brain injury. Can I still recover in Colorado?

Often, yes. Colorado follows modified comparative negligence under C.R.S. 13-21-111. You can recover as long as your share of fault is less than 50 percent, and your damages are reduced by your percentage. If a Broomfield insurer argues you are 30 percent at fault, your recovery drops by 30 percent. If they push you to 50 percent or more, you collect nothing. This is precisely why early evidence gathering matters: the signal phase at the intersection, the driver's speed, CDOT camera footage, and weather data at the time of the crash all affect fault allocation and therefore the size of your recovery.

How long do I have to file a brain injury claim after a Broomfield crash?

Most brain injury claims from a motor vehicle crash carry a three-year filing deadline from the date of the crash (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)). General tort brain injury claims, such as a premises fall at FlatIron Crossing, carry a two-year deadline (C.R.S. 13-80-102). If a government entity contributed, such as a dangerous road condition on US 36 or a signal failure at 160th Avenue and Huron Street, you must file written notice within 182 days of discovering the injury (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)), which is a separate and shorter clock. Because TBI symptoms often worsen over weeks or months, consult an attorney early, while you are still treating, so all deadlines are covered.

CGH Injury Lawyers is in Denver. Can you handle my Broomfield brain injury case?

Yes. CGH Injury Lawyers serves all of Broomfield County from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201. We do not have a Broomfield office, and we say so plainly. We handle Broomfield Combined Court cases in the 17th Judicial District directly. Our attorneys are licensed Colorado lawyers who handle every case personally, and they are prepared to take a brain injury case through trial in Broomfield if an insurer refuses to be fair. Call (303) 209-9395 or submit your case online for a free review.

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