Category: Litigation Success

The firm won this construction defect case at the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Defendant won summary judgment based on a finding that plaintiff’s notice of a claim was untimely and resulted in prejudice as a matter of law.

November 2018 Bailey v. GEICO Casualty Company, civil action 2018CV032557, El Paso County District Court. Plaintiff was involved in a motor vehicle accident. Plaintiff had previously signed a rejection of underinsured motorist coverage under his insurance policy and had not paid any premium for this coverage. However, Plaintiff filed a lawsuit and requested that his insurance contract be reformed after the fact to include underinsured motorist coverage. After Karen Wheeler…

August 2018 Grenillo v. Estate of Joel Hansen, civil action 2018CV31785, Denver District Court. Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the Estate of Joel Hansen related to a 2014 motor vehicle accident involving Plaintiff and Joel Hansen. Mr. Hansen passed away prior to Plaintiff filing her Complaint, and Plaintiff did not file a lawsuit against the Estate of Joel Hansen until May 14, 2018. The Court agreed with Karen Wheeler and…

Summary judgment win! Court held, “If there were ever two claims that should not have been raised in an insurance-coverage-dispute case, Claims Two and Three for unreasonable delay and bad faith are certainly those two claims.”

June 2018 Phillips v. GEICO Casualty Company, Case No. 18-cv-00923-PAB-KLM, United States District Court, District of Colorado Plaintiff was in a motor vehicle accident on September 4, 2016, and claimed he was injured as a result of the negligence of the driver of the vehicle in which he was a passenger. Plaintiff sought to recover not only under the driver’s liability insurance policy, but also on the underinsured motorist coverage…

Court dismisses CCPA claim and claim against individual owner of a company for lack of evidence.

Summary Judgment Win! Court dismisses plaintiffs’ $1M+ claims.

Mr. Waters convinced the parties to dismiss his client without payment.

Just prior to a hearing, plaintiff agreed to produce disputed information.