Wheat Ridge Brain Injury Lawyers Who Prove the Injuries Insurers Call Invisible

No. CGH Injury Lawyers has one office, at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. We represent Wheat Ridge brain injury victims from that office, file cases in Jefferson Combined Court (District Court) in Golden, and meet you where it works for you. You can reach us at (303) 209-9395.

Motor vehicle TBI claims in Colorado generally carry a three-year deadline from the date of the crash under C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n). Most other injury claims, including pedestrian and bicycle cases, carry a two-year deadline under C.R.S. 13-80-102(1)(a). If a government entity such as CDOT or the City of Wheat Ridge is involved, you must deliver written notice of the claim within 182 days of discovering the injury under C.R.S. 24-10-109(1). That 182-day window runs from discovery of the injury, not necessarily the crash date. Missing the government notice bars that claim entirely. Because TBI symptoms can emerge or worsen weeks after a crash, confirm your specific deadlines with an attorney early.

Yes. Standard CT and MRI scans detect structural damage like bleeds and fractures, but they frequently miss the microscopic axonal injuries that cause persistent symptoms in mild TBI cases. A normal scan does not mean no injury. Your case may need advanced imaging such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging, neuropsychological testing, and expert testimony to prove the functional impairment that standard scans cannot show. Colorado courts have accepted these forms of evidence to establish TBI in the absence of structural findings on routine imaging.

Colorado follows a modified comparative negligence rule under C.R.S. 13-21-111. You can recover compensation as long as your share of fault is less than 50 percent. Your damages award is reduced by your percentage of fault. If a jury finds you 49 percent at fault, you still recover 51 percent of your damages. If you are found 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. Insurance carriers aggressively investigate brain injury victims in Wheat Ridge TBI cases to inflate that fault percentage and reduce or eliminate the payout. Preserving evidence early is how we push back against those efforts.

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 carry no cap at all. Economic damages including medical bills, lost wages, life-care plan costs, and future care are entirely uncapped. Compensatory damages for permanent physical impairment or disfigurement are also uncapped. In a moderate or severe TBI case, those uncapped categories often represent the largest share of the total recovery. The damages cap applies only to the pain-and-suffering portion of the claim.

Serious injuries on I-70 and throughout Wheat Ridge are commonly treated at Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital at 12911 W 40th Ave, which holds a Level II Trauma Center designation confirmed by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. For TBI victims, the hospital's initial GCS score, imaging results, and neurology consult records document the injury in a way that is critical to the damages case. We obtain those records from the beginning of every brain injury claim we take in Wheat Ridge.