Recent Posts in Personal Injury Category
Posted on Feb 1, 2012 By Chad Hemmat
Hiring a Colorado trial attorney who can recite the caps on non-economic damages by memory is not nearly as impressive as hiring an attorney who is aware of how to navigate around those caps. If a ...
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Posted on Sep 30, 2011 By Chad Hemmat
A private investigator conducting surveillance is usually a sign of a desperate insurance adjuster who has no other angle of attacking your otherwise legitimate right to compensation. I want to make ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2011 By Chad Hemmat
I am back from a successful trial in El Paso County . In a career that has spanned 20 years, I can tell you that the most common place I find myself is right where the naysayers say it can't be done. ...
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Posted on Jan 14, 2011 By Chad Hemmat
Being the victim of another driver's negligent driving is always bad. However, when that collision occurs during wintertime conditions, bringing the claim against the at-fault driver's insurance may ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By Chad Hemmat
As a continuation of last week's post, here are more lessons to be aware of when you are presenting your personal injury claim. LESSON 6: NEVER IMPERSONATE ANYONE ELSE: On occasion, I have known ...
Continue reading "NEEDLESSLY WALKING THE HIGH-WIRE: RISKS CLIENTS TAKE WITH THEIR PERSONAL INJURY CLAIMS - PART 2" »
Posted on Dec 30, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
During the holiday season, some folks' emotions start to run out of control. Sometimes they can become reckless. This can involve overspending, over-eating, abuse of drugs, abuse of alcohol, and more. ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
Many of our articles focus on tips for hiring the right trial attorney for your particular case. For years we have been hired as the second or even the third attorneys by clients whose first or second ...
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Posted on Oct 30, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
Photographs are about the most powerful type of real evidence we ever can produce in a personal injury trial. And yet, so often by the time we meet our client or take over the case from some other ...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
In the ever-increasing world of instant information, we should consider how we utilize the onslaught of digital information, in particular social websites like Facebook, MySpace and personal blogs. A. ...
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Posted on Oct 1, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
Most of our articles detail attorney quality and how that can effect the outcome of an injury case. Little has been written anywhere about the quality of the client and the client's own effect on ...
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Posted on Sep 15, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
THE GAME: Last Thursday night the Rockies were home against the Cincinnati Reds. It was the bottom of the 8th, with one out, men on first and third and the game tied at 5 after the Rockies climbed out ...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
I spent the week before Labor Day in trial on a case in Denver District Court. For me, doing opening statements, examining witnesses and making a closing argument are an adrenaline rush. There is ...
Continue reading "WAITING ON THE JURY VERDICT: waiting, and waiting, and waiting..." »
Posted on Aug 27, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
The largest companies in the world are insurance companies. Want proof? When AIG was on the brink of failing, a joint session of Congress and a Republican President, in a bi-partisan show of unity, ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
There are no silly or stupid questions asked by clients. Okay, actually that is not entirely true. I once had a client tell me that he had concerns that his auto accident injury was "healing too ...
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Posted on Jul 16, 2010 By Chad Hemmat
The "Thin Skull" Doctrine & Why Insurance Companies Hope You Don't Read This Article A) THE DECEPTION: It usually starts with the phone call from the insurance adjuster. She tells you that she has ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
Welcome to our new Denver Personal Injury Blog!!
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