Commerce City Slip and Fall Lawyers Who Hold Property Owners Accountable

For most slip and fall injuries in Commerce City on private property, Colorado gives you two years from the date of the fall to file a personal injury lawsuit (C.R.S. 13-80-102). Do not wait, because evidence fades, surveillance footage gets overwritten, and witnesses become harder to locate. If you fell on government property, such as a city sidewalk or a county-maintained facility, a much shorter 182-day notice requirement applies under the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)). The 182-day clock runs from the date you discovered the injury, not necessarily the date of the fall itself.

Yes, but only if you comply with the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act and its 182-day written notice requirement. The City of Commerce City can be liable for dangerous conditions of public buildings and certain maintained sidewalks or property under the CGIA's immunity exceptions. If the claim succeeds, the CGIA caps recovery at $505,000 per person for claims on or after January 1, 2026 (C.R.S. 24-10-114). We evaluate whether an immunity waiver applies and file the required notice before the deadline.

Under Colorado's Premises Liability Act (C.R.S. 13-21-115), an invitee is someone on the property for the mutual benefit of both parties, like a customer at a Brighton Boulevard store or a delivery worker at a distribution center. The property owner owes an invitee the highest duty: actively inspect for hazards, fix them, and warn of dangers that cannot be immediately repaired. A licensee is someone on the property for their own purpose with permission, such as a social guest. The owner owes a licensee a lower duty: only warn of known hazards that are not obvious. Your status at the time of the fall is the first thing we determine, because it controls what the owner owed you.

Not necessarily. The open-and-obvious defense is real under Colorado law, but it is not absolute. Recent Colorado Court of Appeals decisions have limited the defense when the owner created an unreasonably dangerous condition or when the injured person had no practical way to avoid it. A loading dock ice patch at the only entry point a worker must use, or a spill in an aisle a customer must pass through, can still generate liability even if it was technically visible. We investigate the full circumstances to determine whether the open-and-obvious argument succeeds or fails against your specific facts.

Yes, as long as your share of fault is less than 50 percent. Colorado follows a modified comparative negligence rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111). Your damages are reduced by your percentage of fault. If a jury finds you 20 percent at fault for the fall, you recover 80 percent of your total damages. At 50 percent or more, recovery is barred entirely. Property owners and their insurers routinely argue that a Commerce City fall victim was not watching where they were going, wore inappropriate footwear, or ignored posted warnings. We build the record to show what the owner failed to do and to hold the comparative fault number as low as the facts allow.

You may recover economic damages including medical bills, lost wages, and future care costs, which are not capped in Colorado premises liability cases. Non-economic damages such as pain and suffering are subject to a $1,500,000 cap for claims that accrue on or after January 1, 2025 (C.R.S. 13-21-102.5). Damages for permanent physical impairment or disfigurement are not capped at all under Colorado law. In Commerce City industrial settings, serious falls often cause hip fractures, spinal injuries, and traumatic brain injuries that generate long-term or permanent impairment, making the uncapped impairment category especially important to your recovery.