Denver Personal Injury Law Blog

Winter weather conditions are slowly but surely replacing the warm autumn days. On Thursday, October 10th, the weather proved a problem for Denver commuters as the first unexpected icy roads of the season made driving conditions more dangerous.

Police reported 193 accidents throughout the day, which caused mile-long backups and major closures on highways and interstates in the metro area.

Insurance companies in Denver have their work cut out for them when a major storm hits the city. Suddenly they start getting hundreds of calls from homeowners wanting to file a claim after the hail put dents all over their roofs. Since filing these claims typically have a limited amount of time, it's important for you to act fast so you can get coverage on your hail damages as soon as you can.

Unfortunately, some insurance companies make it harder to get that coverage than they initially promised. They typically send someone to inspect your roof to determine if you're eligible for storm compensation. If you can see that there is clear damage to your house that they are refusing to help you cover, you should know what common excuses they may use to justify their actions and what you can do in response.

Denver area residents are obviously used to seeing large trucks on the roadways in and around the city, but the sight of an accident that involves a large truck, such as a semi-truck, can be jarring. These types of accidents often involve extensive damage to all of the vehicles involved and, unfortunately, usually fatalities as well.

Truck drivers, like all other drivers on the roads, are not immune from the draw of distractions, like cellphones, eating in the vehicle and even talking to passengers as well. And, like some other drivers, truck drivers might also be intoxicated or drowsy behind the wheel. All of the things that can cause the driver of a regular passenger vehicle to get into a crash can be involved in truck accidents also, but the consequences of a truck accident can be far more devastating.

Today’s health care workers hold undeniably risky positions, and numerous parts of the job description regularly expose them to illness or injury. While some of the risks today’s health care workers face stem from working near ill and violent patients and violent patient family members or loved ones, others stem from moving patients unable to move themselves.

Per Healthcare Business & Technology, the most significant injury risk faced by modern health care workers comes from moving immobile patients. Moving immobile patients places a strain on health care workers even under the best of conditions, so much so that nurses, alone, suffer about 35,000 back and musculoskeletal injuries annually bad enough to keep them out of work.