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A crash on Arapahoe Road, Parker Road, or any Centennial corridor can cause a traumatic brain injury that looks fine on a standard scan but devastates your ability to work and live. Arapahoe County insurers use that gap against you. CGH Injury Lawyers uses advanced medical evidence, neuropsychological testing, and a genuine willingness to try the case in Arapahoe County District Court to close that gap. You pay nothing unless we win.

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A traumatic brain injury suffered on Arapahoe Road, along Parker Road (SH 83), or anywhere in Centennial is medically and legally different from a broken bone. The injury is often invisible on a standard scan, symptoms can surface or worsen weeks later, and an Arapahoe County insurer is trained to use every one of those facts against you. Winning a Centennial TBI case requires building a different kind of evidence, and it requires doing so before that evidence disappears.

  • Medical teams grade a TBI using the Glasgow Coma Scale: mild (GCS 13 to 15, often called a concussion), moderate (GCS 9 to 12), and severe (GCS 3 to 8). A mild score does not mean a minor injury. Post-concussion syndrome affects an estimated 15 to 30 percent of people with a mild TBI, with symptoms lasting months or years.
  • Colorado caps non-economic damages like pain and suffering at $1.5 million for claims that accrue on or after January 1, 2025 (C.R.S. 13-21-102.5). Economic damages, including medical bills, lost wages, and lifetime care plans, carry no cap. Compensation for physical impairment or disfigurement is also uncapped, and those two categories often drive the bulk of a serious TBI recovery.
  • Colorado's modified comparative fault rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111) lets you recover if your share of fault is less than 50 percent. If an Arapahoe County insurer pushes your share to 50 percent or more, you recover nothing, which is why early legal representation to lock in the evidence and counter that narrative is so important.

CGH Injury Lawyers is a eight-attorney Colorado personal injury firm that serves Centennial and all of Arapahoe County from our Denver office. We do not have a Centennial office and do not claim otherwise. What we do have is the medical experts, the imaging specialists, and the trial record to prove a brain injury that an insurance company calls invisible. You pay nothing unless we win your case.

Local Knowledge

Centennial courts. Centennial trauma care. Centennial roads.

A Centennial brain injury case is anchored in Centennial's specific roads, the hospital that treated you, and the courthouse where a jury would decide your case. Here is the ground we work on for every Arapahoe County TBI client.

Courthouse

Arapahoe County District Court, 18th Judicial District

A Centennial brain injury lawsuit that exceeds the county-court jurisdictional limit is filed in Arapahoe County District Court at the Arapahoe County Justice Center, 7325 S. Potomac St., Centennial, CO 80112, in the Eighteenth Judicial District. The courthouse sits in Centennial itself. Jurors drawn from the Arapahoe County pool bring local knowledge of the corridors where these crashes happen, including Arapahoe Road and Parker Road. We handle cases filed there directly from our Denver office, without referring your case to outside counsel.

Trauma Care and Brain Injury Rehabilitation

HCA HealthONE Swedish, AdventHealth Littleton, and Craig Hospital

Serious Centennial brain injuries frequently receive initial trauma care at HCA HealthONE Swedish (Swedish Medical Center), 501 E. Hampden Ave., Englewood, CO 80113, a state-designated Level I trauma and burn center minutes from I-25. AdventHealth Littleton (formerly Littleton Adventist Hospital), 7700 S. Broadway, Littleton, CO 80122, is an American College of Surgeons verified and state-designated Level II Trauma Center. For moderate to severe TBIs requiring rehabilitation, Craig Hospital in Englewood is one of the nation's top-ranked centers for brain and spinal cord injury recovery. Medical and rehabilitation records from all three facilities document the full scope of your injury and become the foundation of your damages case.

High-Risk Corridors for TBI-Producing Crashes

SH 88 (Arapahoe Road), SH 83 (Parker Road), I-25, E-470, and C-470

State Highway 88 (Arapahoe Road) crosses Centennial with three lanes in each direction, where high-speed commuter traffic and the I-25 interchange produce head-on, rear-end, and sideswipe collisions capable of causing severe head trauma. A CDOT safety study of State Highway 83 (Parker Road) identifies narrow shoulders, numerous access points, steep side slopes, and high traffic growth as documented crash-contributing factors, exactly the conditions that lead to the violent deceleration forces associated with traumatic brain injuries. E-470 and C-470, which terminates near the Lone Tree and Centennial boundary, complete a road network where at-speed collisions routinely send victims to Swedish Medical Center with head injuries that standard imaging sometimes underestimates.

Why these cases are harder

Why a Centennial brain injury claim is different from other Arapahoe County injury cases

A broken arm shows up on an X-ray. A traumatic brain injury often does not. That is the single most dangerous gap in a TBI case, and Arapahoe County insurers are trained to exploit it.

The normal-scan argument

Standard CT and MRI scans detect bleeding and skull fractures. They routinely miss the microscopic axonal tears, damage to the individual fibers that carry signals between brain regions, that cause lasting symptoms after a mild or moderate TBI. When your scan comes back normal, an Arapahoe County adjuster will argue your injury does not exist or is not serious. The truth is that the most disabling TBIs in high-speed corridor crashes often look fine on a routine scan.

  • Insurers routinely label a brain injury minor based on the initial GCS score and a negative scan, even when your daily life, your work, and your family relationships tell a completely different story.
  • Cognitive symptoms including chronic headaches, memory lapses, processing slowdowns, and emotional instability are real, documentable harms that a jury can understand once the case is built with the right evidence.
  • Brain injuries in Centennial crashes rarely happen in isolation. The legal pathway depends on whether the crash involved a private driver, a commercial vehicle, a government road defect, or some combination, because that affects which deadlines and which insurance sources apply.

TBI classifications

How TBI grades shape a Centennial injury claim, and why mild does not mean minor

Medical teams classify a TBI using the Glasgow Coma Scale, a 15-point assessment of eye, verbal, and motor response recorded close to the time of injury. That score becomes a key piece of evidence for the insurer, and it is one of the first things we put in context for an Arapahoe County jury.

  1. Mild TBI (GCS 13 to 15)

    Often called a concussion. Brief loss of consciousness under 30 minutes, or confusion right after impact. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, memory problems, and sensitivity to light and noise. Post-concussion syndrome affects an estimated 15 to 30 percent of people with a mild TBI, and symptoms can persist for months or years. For a software developer in Centennial's Denver Tech Center corridor, a teacher, or anyone whose career depends on concentration and memory, post-concussion syndrome can change earning capacity for life.

  2. Moderate TBI (GCS 9 to 12)

    Loss of consciousness lasting 30 minutes to 24 hours, often with CT or MRI abnormalities. Victims commonly face cognitive deficits, personality changes, and physical impairments requiring extended rehabilitation at facilities like Craig Hospital. Economic damages in these cases, the bills, lost wages, and future care, quickly exceed the non-economic cap and carry the most legal weight.

  3. Severe TBI (GCS 3 to 8)

    Extended unconsciousness or coma, often with skull fracture or intracranial bleeding. Survivors can face permanent disability affecting movement, speech, memory, and executive function. These cases require a certified life-care planner to project decades of medical needs, adaptive equipment, attendant care, and lost earning capacity, an economic picture that no cap touches because it is all economic loss.

Your GCS score on the day of the crash is the starting point for the insurer. It is not the endpoint for your case. A mild TBI that stops a Centennial-area accountant from doing complex work can warrant more compensation than a moderate TBI in someone who makes a full recovery. What matters is how the injury changed what you can do and what you have lost.

Colorado law

The Colorado statutes that decide what your Centennial brain injury case is worth

A handful of Colorado rules determine how much time you have, how fault is divided, and which categories of damages have limits. Here is what controls a Centennial TBI claim.

Filing deadline

For brain injuries arising out of a motor vehicle crash on Arapahoe Road, Parker Road, or any other Centennial corridor, Colorado gives you three years from the date of the crash to file a lawsuit (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)). Because TBI symptoms can emerge or worsen weeks after the collision, do not wait until you feel your worst to call an attorney. Evidence on high-volume corridors degrades fast.

Government entity: the 182-day CGIA notice

If a road defect, a malfunctioning signal, or a government vehicle contributed to your crash and TBI, a separate written notice of claim must be filed within 182 days from the date you discover the injury (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)). That notice is a jurisdictional requirement, meaning missing it eliminates the claim against the public entity entirely. The clock runs from discovery of the injury, not necessarily from the crash date.

Damage categories and caps

  • Non-economic damages such as pain and suffering are capped at $1.5 million for claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025, under C.R.S. 13-21-102.5. This cap does not apply to physical impairment or disfigurement damages, which are completely uncapped under the same statute.
  • Economic damages, which include all past and future medical bills, lost wages, and life-care plan costs, carry no cap in Colorado. In a severe TBI case requiring decades of care, these figures can far exceed the non-economic cap and represent the core of the claim's value.
  • Punitive damages are available when a defendant acted with willful and wanton disregard, such as a drunk driver who caused the crash. Under C.R.S. 13-21-102(1)(a), punitive damages can match actual damages, and a court can increase that amount up to three times actual damages when the defendant continues the willful and wanton conduct after suit is filed.

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

Colorado follows a modified comparative negligence rule. You can recover as long as your share of fault is less than 50 percent, and your award is reduced by your share. If an Arapahoe County jury finds you 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. Insurers investigate the crash specifically to push your percentage as high as possible, which is why securing an attorney early, before anyone disputes liability, protects the full value of your TBI claim.

Building your case

The evidence that proves an invisible Centennial brain injury

Arapahoe County insurers defend these claims hard, pointing to a normal scan and arguing your symptoms are pre-existing, exaggerated, or unrelated to the crash. A winning TBI case is built in layers, combining objective testing with the human story of how your life changed on and after the day of impact.

  1. Neuropsychological testing

    A multi-hour assessment that measures memory, attention, processing speed, executive function, and emotional regulation against age-matched norms. The scores produce objective data that directly answers an insurer's claim that the scans look normal and you seem fine. Neuropsychological testing is often the single most important piece of evidence in a mild or moderate TBI case.

  2. Advanced imaging: DTI and functional MRI

    Diffusion Tensor Imaging maps the white-matter tracts that standard MRI cannot resolve, revealing microscopic axonal tears that a routine scan misses entirely. Functional MRI shows the brain working harder than it should to perform tasks that were once automatic. Both forms of imaging can establish structural and functional injury in a Centennial crash case where the initial scan appeared normal.

  3. Life-care plan and vocational expert

    A certified life-care planner projects the cost of every medical need from settlement through life expectancy: physician visits, rehabilitation therapies, medications, adaptive equipment, home modifications, and attendant care. A vocational expert translates medical limitations into economic loss, identifying which jobs you can still do and at what wage. Together, these experts build the uncapped economic damages that often drive the largest recoveries in Centennial TBI cases.

  4. Before-and-after testimony

    Coworkers, family members, and friends who knew you before the crash testify to the change in your concentration, mood, energy, and ability to do the things you used to do. Day-in-the-life documentation shows an Arapahoe County jury the concrete daily impact of a TBI that does not show up on a standard scan.

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Compensation

What a Centennial brain injury victim can recover, and what comparative fault changes

The categories of damages in a Centennial TBI case each follow different rules. Knowing which are capped, which are not, and how an Arapahoe County jury divides fault is what allows us to build a claim to its full legal value.

Economic damages (no cap)

  • Medical bills, past and future
  • Lost wages and lost income to date
  • Loss of future earning capacity
  • Life-care plan and long-term care costs
  • Rehabilitation and cognitive therapy
  • Home modifications and adaptive equipment
  • Case management and care coordination

Non-economic and impairment damages

  • Pain and suffering (capped at $1.5 million for claims accruing on or after Jan. 1, 2025)
  • Loss of enjoyment of life
  • Permanent impairment and disfigurement (no cap)
  • Loss of consortium for a spouse
  • The family's loss of companionship and support

How comparative fault affects your Centennial TBI award

Colorado's modified comparative negligence rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111) means your final award is reduced by your percentage of fault. If a jury finds you 20 percent at fault for your Centennial crash, your recovery is reduced by 20 percent. If a jury finds you 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing at all. Arapahoe County insurers push the victim's fault percentage as high as possible precisely because that bar is so consequential. Early investigation, expert accident reconstruction, and credible medical evidence lock in the facts before adjusters can rewrite them.

After the crash

What to do after a suspected brain injury in Centennial

The hours and days after a TBI-producing crash in Centennial are when the most important evidence either gets preserved or lost forever. These steps protect both your health and your claim.

  1. Call 911 and get a police report

    Request police and emergency medical response. A Centennial Police or Arapahoe County Sheriff crash report is critical evidence that documents the scene, the at-fault party, and your condition at the time. Even if you feel manageable at the scene, adrenaline suppresses symptoms and many TBI signs appear hours or days later.

  2. Go to a trauma center, then follow up with a specialist

    Serious Centennial crashes are often treated at HCA HealthONE Swedish (Swedish Medical Center) in Englewood, a state-designated Level I trauma and burn center, or AdventHealth Littleton (formerly Littleton Adventist Hospital) in Littleton, a state-designated Level II Trauma Center. After initial emergency care, follow up with a neurologist. A treatment gap in your records gives an insurer reason to argue your symptoms are unrelated to the crash.

  3. Do not give a recorded statement

    The at-fault driver's insurer may call you within days. Do not give a recorded statement or sign any medical authorization before you speak with an attorney. A statement about how you feel the week after a TBI can undercut a case for symptoms that appear or worsen a month later.

  4. Preserve every piece of evidence

    Photograph the scene, your vehicle, and your visible injuries. Note the exact location, including the cross street or interchange on Arapahoe Road or Parker Road. Collect witness names and contacts. Keep every medical record, billing statement, and out-of-pocket receipt from the day of the crash forward.

  5. Call CGH before the deadlines run

    Motor vehicle TBI claims carry a three-year filing deadline (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)). If a public entity, road authority, or government signal contributed, the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act requires written notice within 182 days of discovering the injury (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)), a much shorter window that most victims miss. A free consultation costs you nothing and starts the clock working for you instead of against you.

How it works

How CGH Injury Lawyers handles a Centennial brain injury claim

We prepare every case as if it will be tried before an Arapahoe County jury. Most resolve before a courtroom, but trial readiness is exactly what makes an insurer pay full value instead of a quick, low offer.

  1. Free case evaluation

    We review the facts of your Centennial crash, explain your rights under Colorado law, and answer your questions at no cost and with no obligation to hire us.

  2. Build the medical proof

    We coordinate neuropsychological testing, advanced imaging if indicated, and records from HCA HealthONE Swedish, AdventHealth Littleton, or Craig Hospital to document the injury an insurer will argue the scan does not support.

  3. Project the full lifetime cost

    We work with certified life-care planners and vocational economists to value future care, lost earning capacity, and the economic losses that carry no cap under Colorado law. Settling before you reach maximum medical improvement often leaves the most significant dollars on the table.

  4. Demand and negotiate

    We send a fully documented demand to the at-fault party's insurer and negotiate from a position of genuine trial readiness. Firms that signal they want to avoid Arapahoe County District Court get lower offers. We do not signal that.

  5. File in Arapahoe County District Court when needed

    If the insurer refuses a fair offer, we file in Arapahoe County District Court at the Arapahoe County Justice Center, 7325 S. Potomac St., Centennial, CO 80112. Managing Partner Kevin Cheney is a member of ABOTA and has tried over 25 cases to verdict. The same team that evaluated your case handles it through trial without referring you to outside litigation counsel.

Your team

The attorneys handling your Centennial brain injury case

CGH Injury Lawyers is a eight-attorney Colorado personal injury 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 Centennial brain injury case is handled by a licensed Colorado attorney, not a paralegal, from the first call through the final outcome. CGH Injury Lawyers does not maintain a Centennial office. We serve Centennial and all of Arapahoe County from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205.

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Frequently asked questions

Centennial brain injury lawyer, frequently asked questions

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

Yes, in many cases. Standard MRI and CT scans detect bleeding and skull fractures but regularly miss the microscopic axonal damage that causes lasting symptoms after a mild or moderate TBI. An Arapahoe County insurer will use a normal scan to argue your injury is minor or non-existent. We counter that with neuropsychological testing that objectively measures cognitive function, and with advanced imaging techniques like Diffusion Tensor Imaging that can reveal white-matter tract damage a routine scan cannot resolve. Colorado courts recognize that the absence of structural damage on a standard scan does not disprove a brain injury claim.

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

For a brain injury arising out of a motor vehicle crash on Arapahoe Road, Parker Road, or any other Centennial corridor, Colorado gives you three years from the crash date to file a lawsuit (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)). If a government entity, road authority, or public vehicle contributed to the crash, the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)) requires a separate written notice of claim within 182 days of discovering the injury. Missing that 182-day notice eliminates the claim against the public entity. Because TBI symptoms can surface weeks after the crash, do not delay consulting an attorney.

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

Partially. Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering at $1.5 million for claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025, under C.R.S. 13-21-102.5. Two categories are not capped at all: economic damages (medical bills, lost wages, and life-care plan costs) and compensation for physical impairment or disfigurement. In a serious TBI case, the uncapped economic losses and impairment damages almost always represent the largest portion of the recovery, and neither is subject to any limit under Colorado law.

I was partly at fault for the Centennial crash that caused my TBI. Can I still recover?

Often yes. Colorado follows a modified comparative negligence rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111). You can recover as long as your share of fault is less than 50 percent, and your award is reduced proportionally by your share. If a jury finds you 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. Arapahoe County insurers commonly try to push a TBI victim's fault percentage upward to approach or cross that bar. Early legal representation and independent accident reconstruction help lock in the facts before an adjuster rewrites them.

Where would my Centennial brain injury lawsuit be filed?

A Centennial brain injury lawsuit that exceeds the county-court jurisdictional limit is filed in Arapahoe County District Court at the Arapahoe County Justice Center, 7325 S. Potomac St., Centennial, CO 80112, in the Eighteenth Judicial District. The courthouse is in Centennial itself. Jurors are drawn from the Arapahoe County pool. Local procedure, the jury profile, and the defense firms handling Arapahoe County TBI cases all differ from other jurisdictions. CGH Injury Lawyers handles Arapahoe County District Court cases directly from our Denver office, without referring the case to outside counsel.

Does CGH Injury Lawyers have an office in Centennial?

No. CGH Injury Lawyers has one physical office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. We serve Centennial and all of Arapahoe County from that Denver office, file cases in Arapahoe County District Court at the Eighteenth Judicial District, and meet clients on their schedule. We do not maintain a Centennial address and do not claim otherwise. Call us at (303) 209-9395.

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