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A traumatic brain injury on US 285, near the I-25 interchange, or anywhere in Englewood can look invisible on a scan while changing your life permanently. CGH Injury Lawyers serves Englewood and all of Arapahoe County from our Denver office, builds the medical proof an insurer cannot dismiss, and files in the 18th Judicial District when a fair settlement is refused.

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Englewood is home to Craig Hospital at 3425 S. Clarkson Street, a federally designated Specialty Hospital for Rehabilitation and one of the nation's top brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation centers. That medical reality reflects how serious TBIs are in this community. When a crash on US 285, the I-25 / Hampden interchange, or Santa Fe Drive puts someone inside Craig Hospital or HCA HealthONE Swedish, the legal case must be built to match the full scope of the injury.

  • Doctors classify a traumatic brain injury on the Glasgow Coma Scale as mild (GCS 13 to 15), moderate (GCS 9 to 12), or severe (GCS 3 to 8). A mild score does not mean a minor outcome. Post-concussion syndrome affects an estimated 15 to 30 percent of mild TBI survivors and can last months or years.
  • Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering under C.R.S. 13-21-102.5, but economic damages including medical bills, lost wages, life-care plan costs, and Craig Hospital rehabilitation expenses are never capped. Compensation for physical impairment or disfigurement is also uncapped. Those uncapped categories often make up the largest share of a serious TBI recovery.
  • Colorado's modified comparative fault rule under C.R.S. 13-21-111 lets you recover as long as you were less than 50 percent at fault. Brain injury cases filed against government entities, including crashes involving city vehicles or dangerous government-maintained roads, require a written notice of claim within 182 days of discovering the injury under C.R.S. 24-10-109.

CGH Injury Lawyers represents brain injury victims and their families across Englewood and all of Arapahoe County from our Denver office. Our team builds the medical proof, coordinates with Craig Hospital and treating physicians, fights the insurance company, and takes the case to the 18th Judicial District when a fair resolution is refused. No upfront fees, free first consultation.

Englewood, Arapahoe County

We know Englewood: the rehabilitation center that treated you, the corridors where TBI crashes happen, and the courthouse where your case may be filed

Every Englewood brain injury claim has a local shape. Here is the ground we work on.

Rehabilitation and Trauma Care

Craig Hospital and HCA HealthONE Swedish, Englewood

Craig Hospital at 3425 S. Clarkson Street is a federally designated Specialty Hospital for Rehabilitation, consistently ranked among the nation's best for brain and spinal cord injury care. For a TBI victim treated at Craig, the medical records are a detailed roadmap of the injury and the rehabilitation journey, from acute stabilization through long-term functional recovery. Those records form the foundation of a life-care plan that projects decades of future care costs. HCA HealthONE Swedish at 501 E. Hampden Ave is a CDPHE-designated Level I Trauma Center and Colorado's first Comprehensive Stroke Center, treating the most serious acute head trauma cases arriving from Englewood-area crashes. A claimant treated at either facility has already sustained an injury serious enough that the legal case must be built to reflect it fully.

High-Risk Corridors

US 285 / Hampden Avenue, US 85 / Santa Fe Drive, I-25, and South Broadway

The corridors most associated with serious Englewood injuries are the same ones that produce TBI claims. US 285 / Hampden Avenue was the subject of a multi-agency Mobility and Safety Study documenting fatal crashes, including a 2023 motorcycle fatality west of South Broadway. The I-25 / Hampden Avenue interchange is identified by CDOT as a high-attention location with documented exit-ramp crash activity. Santa Fe Drive (US 85) is a six-lane divided arterial with active safety improvement projects and heavy commercial truck traffic. A crash at highway speed on any of these corridors generates the kind of head-impact force that produces a TBI, even when the vehicle damage looks modest. Pedestrians and cyclists along South Broadway and near the Englewood RTD Light Rail Station at 899 W. Floyd Ave face a different but equally serious exposure, where a struck pedestrian rarely escapes without a head impact on the vehicle or the pavement.

Courthouse

18th Judicial District, Arapahoe County District Court

Brain injury lawsuits arising in Englewood are filed in the 18th Judicial District of Colorado, Arapahoe County District Court. The court holds sessions at the Arapahoe County Justice Center, 7325 S. Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112, and the Arapahoe County Courthouse, 1790 West Littleton Blvd, Littleton, CO 80120. Defense firms and insurance carriers that handle Arapahoe County TBI claims know this court well. So do we. CGH Injury Lawyers files and tries cases in the 18th Judicial District directly from our Denver office, with no added delay or cost to you.

Why these cases are harder

Why a brain injury claim in Englewood is different from any other personal injury case

A broken bone shows up on an X-ray. A traumatic brain injury often does not. That is the central challenge of every TBI claim: proving an injury that standard imaging can miss, to an insurer whose job is to argue that what cannot be seen does not exist.

The negative-scan problem and what to do about it

Standard CT and MRI scans detect bleeding, fractures, and structural damage. They routinely miss the microscopic axonal tears that cause lasting cognitive symptoms after a mild TBI. An insurer presented with a clean scan will argue the injury is not real. We counter that with a layered evidence strategy: neuropsychological testing that produces objective data on memory, attention, and processing speed; advanced imaging such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) that maps white-matter tract damage invisible on a routine MRI; and the testimony of people who knew you before the crash and can describe what changed.

  • Insurers use the word mild from a GCS score to justify low offers, even when post-concussion symptoms keep someone from working months later. The label describes a single measurement on the day of injury, not the rest of your life.
  • Craig Hospital records carry significant weight in an Englewood TBI claim. When a rehabilitation specialist at one of the nation's top brain injury centers documents your functional deficits, an adjuster cannot easily dismiss them.
  • The legal pathway depends on how the injury happened. A TBI from a US 285 crash involves different liability questions than one from a fall at an Englewood City Center property or a pedestrian strike near South Broadway.

TBI classifications

How doctors grade a traumatic brain injury and why the grade is only the starting point

Medical teams classify a TBI using the Glasgow Coma Scale, a 15-point assessment of eye opening, verbal response, and motor response, usually recorded within hours of the injury. The score anchors your diagnosis. It does not determine what you can recover.

  1. Mild TBI (GCS 13 to 15): concussion

    Brief loss of consciousness, under 30 minutes, or immediate confusion after impact. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, light sensitivity, memory gaps, and sleep problems. Post-concussion syndrome, affecting an estimated 15 to 30 percent of mild TBI survivors, can extend those symptoms for months or years. For someone whose career depends on concentration, such as a teacher, programmer, or healthcare worker in the Englewood area, a mild TBI can end the ability to perform essential job functions.

  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 months of rehabilitation. HCA HealthONE Swedish and Craig Hospital both handle moderate TBI cases from the Englewood area, and rehabilitation records from those facilities document the functional impact in ways that support a full damages claim.

  3. Severe TBI (GCS 3 to 8)

    Extended unconsciousness, possible coma, skull fracture, or brain bleeding. Survivors can face permanent disability affecting movement, speech, memory, and executive function. These cases require a life-care plan projecting decades of physician care, rehabilitation therapies, attendant care, adaptive equipment, and home modifications. Craig Hospital's rehabilitation protocols serve as a local benchmark for what medically necessary future care looks like and what it costs.

Your GCS score is the starting point, not the ceiling. A mild TBI that stops a software engineer from concentrating or a skilled-trades worker from managing a complex job site can warrant more compensation than a moderate TBI from which someone makes a full recovery. The question is always how the injury changed your ability to work and live.

After the injury

What to do after a brain injury in Englewood

The decisions made in the days and weeks after a TBI can protect or undermine your legal claim. These steps apply whether the injury happened in a crash on Hampden, a fall at Englewood City Center, or a pedestrian strike near the RTD Light Rail station.

  1. Get emergency care and document your symptoms

    Go to HCA HealthONE Swedish (501 E. Hampden Ave, Level I Trauma Center) or call 911 immediately if the injury was serious. Even if you walked away from a crash, a head impact warrants a medical evaluation within 24 to 48 hours. TBI symptoms including headaches, confusion, and memory gaps can surface or worsen days after the event. A gap in medical care gives an insurer a reason to argue the injury was not caused by the accident.

  2. Keep a symptom journal from the first day

    Write down every symptom as it appears: headaches, sleep problems, sensitivity to light and sound, memory lapses, mood changes, difficulty concentrating. A dated journal is evidence the insurer cannot easily dispute and helps your treating physicians track the progression of post-concussion symptoms over time.

  3. Preserve every piece of evidence from the scene

    If you were in a crash, photograph vehicles, road conditions, and skid marks. On US 285 or the I-25 corridor, note whether traffic signals were functional and whether a commercial vehicle was involved. For falls or other incidents, document the hazard before it is corrected. Surveillance footage from intersections along South Broadway and Santa Fe Drive is often overwritten within days.

  4. Do not give a recorded statement to the insurer

    After a Hampden Avenue crash or any serious Englewood injury, the at-fault party's insurer will contact you quickly. Do not give a recorded statement or sign a medical release before speaking with an attorney. Early recorded statements are used to lock you into descriptions of your condition before the full extent of a TBI is known.

  5. Contact a brain injury attorney before deadlines run

    Colorado's general personal injury deadline is two years under C.R.S. 13-80-102. If a government entity is involved, the notice of claim deadline under C.R.S. 24-10-109 is 182 days from the date you discovered the injury, not the date of the accident. Missing either deadline ends your claim entirely. A free consultation costs you nothing and protects all your options.

Colorado law

Colorado statutes that govern your Englewood brain injury claim

A handful of Colorado rules determine how much time you have to act, how fault affects your award, and which categories of damages are limited. Here is what matters most for a TBI claim filed from Englewood or anywhere in Arapahoe County.

Filing deadlines

Colorado's general personal injury statute of limitations is two years (C.R.S. 13-80-102). Motor vehicle crash claims, which produce many Englewood TBI cases, carry a three-year deadline (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)). If a government vehicle or government-maintained road contributed to the injury, the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act requires a written notice of claim within 182 days of the date you discovered the injury, not the crash date, under C.R.S. 24-10-109(1). Missing the CGIA notice deadline can permanently bar your claim against a public entity, even if the full statutory period has not yet run.

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

Colorado uses modified comparative negligence. You can recover as long as your share of fault is less than 50 percent, and your award is reduced by your percentage of fault. If you are found 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. Insurers fight hard to assign as much fault as possible to TBI victims, arguing a cyclist was not wearing a helmet, a pedestrian was crossing mid-block near South Broadway, or a driver was speeding on Hampden. An attorney challenges those fault-inflation arguments with crash reconstruction, witness accounts, and physical evidence.

Damage caps and uncapped categories

  • Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering under C.R.S. 13-21-102.5. For claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025, the cap is $1,500,000. The cap does not apply to economic damages, which include all medical expenses, lost wages, loss of earning capacity, and life-care plan costs. Those economic categories are never capped.
  • Compensatory damages for physical impairment or disfigurement are also uncapped under Colorado law. A TBI survivor with permanent cognitive deficits, paralysis, or other lasting physical impairment can recover those damages without a ceiling, separate from the non-economic cap.
  • If the at-fault party acted with willful and wanton disregard, such as a drunk driver on I-25 or a commercial operator with a known safety violation, punitive damages may be available. Colorado limits punitive damages to the amount of actual damages awarded (C.R.S. 13-21-102), though a court may increase that award up to three times actual damages when the defendant's willful conduct continues after the lawsuit is filed.
  • In a brain injury case serious enough to cause wrongful death, Colorado caps non-economic wrongful death damages at $2,125,000 for claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025 (C.R.S. 13-21-203). The two-year wrongful death filing deadline under C.R.S. 13-80-102 runs from the date of death.

Compensation

What an Englewood brain injury victim can recover

Colorado law lets injured people recover two broad categories of damages after a TBI, and two of the most important sub-categories in a serious brain injury case are entirely uncapped.

Economic damages (no cap)

  • Emergency and hospital care, including HCA HealthONE Swedish Level I Trauma services
  • Craig Hospital rehabilitation stays, therapies, and outpatient care
  • Ongoing neurology, physiatry, and psychiatry appointments
  • Neuropsychological testing and cognitive therapy
  • Lost wages and lost earning capacity
  • Life-care plan costs projecting decades of future medical needs
  • Attendant care and in-home support services
  • Home modifications and adaptive equipment

Non-economic and family damages

  • Pain and suffering (capped at $1,500,000 for claims on or after Jan. 1, 2025)
  • Emotional distress
  • Loss of enjoyment of life
  • Physical impairment and disfigurement (uncapped)
  • Loss of consortium for a spouse
  • Family's loss of companionship and support

For a severe TBI requiring Craig Hospital rehabilitation, decades of attendant care, and permanent loss of a professional career, the uncapped economic and physical-impairment categories often dwarf the non-economic cap. The foundation of a strong Englewood TBI case is a life-care plan prepared by a certified rehabilitation specialist, paired with a vocational economist who projects lifetime earning capacity loss. Those two expert reports translate medical limits into real dollar figures a jury can understand.

Building your case

How CGH builds a TBI case for an Englewood client

We prepare every TBI case as if it will be tried in the 18th Judicial District. That readiness is what moves insurers to pay full value before a courtroom is ever needed.

  1. Free case evaluation

    We review the facts of your injury, explain Colorado law and your rights under it, and give you a straight answer about whether you have a viable claim. No cost, no obligation.

  2. Build the medical and neuropsychological proof

    We coordinate neuropsychological testing, advanced imaging where indicated (including DTI to map white-matter tract damage), and treating-physician records from Craig Hospital, HCA HealthONE Swedish, and any other providers. We work with experts who specialize in translating TBI symptoms into objective, testable evidence that survives cross-examination.

  3. Project lifetime economic loss

    We engage a certified life-care planner to project every medical expense from today through the client's life expectancy, and a vocational economist to calculate lost earning capacity. For an Englewood client treated at Craig Hospital, those projections anchor the economic side of the claim at figures an insurer cannot simply dismiss.

  4. Document before-and-after impact

    Coworkers, family, neighbors, and friends who knew you before the injury testify to what changed. Day-in-the-life documentation of daily challenges helps a jury understand what cognitive symptoms and fatigue actually look like in a person's daily routine.

  5. Demand, negotiate, and file suit when needed

    We send a documented demand to the insurer and negotiate from a position of trial readiness. If the insurer refuses a fair offer, we file in the 18th Judicial District, Arapahoe County District Court, and take your case to an Arapahoe County jury. Managing Partner Kevin Cheney is an ABOTA member who has tried over 25 cases to verdict.

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Your team

The team handling your Englewood brain injury case

CGH Injury Lawyers is a eight-attorney Colorado firm founded in 2016, formerly Cheney Galluzzi & 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 Englewood brain injury case is handled by a licensed Colorado attorney, not a paralegal. We serve Englewood and all of Arapahoe County from our Denver office at no cost to you unless we win.

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Frequently asked questions

Englewood brain injury, frequently asked questions

How long do I have to file a brain injury lawsuit in Colorado after an Englewood accident?

The deadline depends on how the injury happened. For a motor vehicle crash on US 285, I-25, or Santa Fe Drive, Colorado gives you three years from the crash date under C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n). For most other TBI causes such as falls or premises incidents, the general personal injury deadline is two years under C.R.S. 13-80-102. If a government entity or government vehicle was involved, the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act requires a written notice of claim within 182 days of the date you discovered the injury, under C.R.S. 24-10-109(1). Missing the CGIA notice window can permanently end your claim against a public entity even if the full statute of limitations has not yet expired. Contact an attorney as soon as possible, because evidence degrades and deadlines can run faster than they appear.

My MRI after the Hampden Avenue crash was normal. Can I still have a brain injury?

Yes. Standard MRI and CT scans detect structural damage, bleeding, and fractures. They routinely miss the microscopic axonal tears that cause persistent cognitive symptoms after a mild TBI. Colorado courts recognize that the absence of visible structural damage on routine imaging does not mean the absence of injury. Your case may require advanced imaging such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), neuropsychological testing that produces objective cognitive data, and expert testimony to prove functional impairment that standard scans cannot show. Craig Hospital, with its nationally recognized TBI rehabilitation expertise, often produces records that document functional deficits far beyond what an initial scan reveals.

Does Colorado cap brain injury damages?

Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering at $1,500,000 for claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025, under C.R.S. 13-21-102.5. Two categories are entirely uncapped: economic damages, which include all medical bills, rehabilitation costs, Craig Hospital care, lost wages, and life-care plan projections; and compensatory damages for physical impairment or disfigurement. In a serious Englewood TBI case, the uncapped economic losses and physical impairment damages almost always represent the majority of the total recovery. A case with $200,000 in non-economic damages and $2,000,000 in medical bills and lost earning capacity has most of its value in the uncapped column.

What if I was partly at fault for the crash that caused my brain injury?

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 total award is reduced by your percentage. If you are found 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. On Englewood corridors like I-25 and Hampden, insurers frequently argue that the injured person changed lanes improperly, was speeding, or was distracted. An attorney challenges those arguments with crash reconstruction data, surveillance footage, and the police report to keep your fault percentage as low as the facts support.

What is a life-care plan and why does my Englewood TBI case need one?

A life-care plan is a detailed document prepared by a certified life-care planner or rehabilitation specialist that projects every medical expense a TBI survivor will need from settlement through their life expectancy. It typically includes ongoing physician visits in neurology and psychiatry, physical and cognitive rehabilitation therapies, prescription medications, adaptive equipment, attendant care hours, and home modifications. For an Englewood client treated at Craig Hospital, life-care plans routinely reference Craig's documented rehabilitation protocols to show that projected future costs are medically necessary, not speculative. That foundation makes the economic damages portion of the claim nearly impossible for an insurer to dismiss entirely.

Does CGH have an office in Englewood?

CGH Injury Lawyers does not have an Englewood office. We represent Englewood brain injury clients from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. Englewood is a service-area city, not a separate office location. We coordinate directly with Craig Hospital, HCA HealthONE Swedish, and Englewood-area treating physicians, handle all negotiations with insurers, and file cases in the 18th Judicial District, Arapahoe County District Court when needed. You do not need to travel to us for the work to move forward.

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