A broken gate is not a maintenance issue. Not after someone already complained.
Hotels, apartment complexes, stores and parking garages are supposed to keep people reasonably safe. When an owner ignores a dangerous floor, a dead light or a lock that never latched, and someone gets badly hurt, The Pink Advocate asks who knew and what they did about it.
Our intake team takes the first call. Asking questions does not commit you to anything.
Severe injuries on someone else's property
Greer Law Group only takes cases where someone was severely or permanently hurt because a property owner or manager didn't deal with a danger they knew about, or should have. That includes falls, collapses and attacks that better security could have prevented.
If you slipped, got a bruise and are healing well, we're probably not the right firm for your claim, and we'll say so.
- Assaults causing serious injury in hotels, apartments, garages or parking lots with broken locks, dark lighting or no security
- Falls that caused broken bones, surgery or a head or spinal injury
- Near drownings and serious injuries at pools, resorts and bars
- Injuries with lasting limits on how you work, move or live
- A family member killed on someone else's property
What the property owner will say
Owners and their insurers have a short list of excuses. Each one has an answer, and the answer is usually in the records.
"We had no idea"
Maintenance logs, prior complaints, incident reports and police calls to the same address can show what the owner knew, or should have known, long before you got hurt.
"You should have watched your step"
Blaming the injured person is the first move. Every percent of fault they pin on you cuts what they pay.
"Blame the attacker, not us"
In a security case, the owner will point at the person who hurt you. The real question is whether the owner left the door open for it to happen.
The video that goes missing
Security footage is often recorded over on a schedule. The sooner someone asks for it in writing, the better the chance it still exists.
Property owners love confusion. It gives them room to explain away what they should have fixed.
Rules that shape a Colorado property injury claim
General information, not legal advice. Every case turns on its own facts.
Colorado generally gives you two years to file a lawsuit for injuries caused by someone else's negligence, including falls and assaults on another person's property. The clock usually starts when the injury happens.
Customers, guests and other invited visitors can recover for an owner's unreasonable failure to take reasonable care against dangers the owner actually knew about or should have known about. Your status on the property matters, so it's one of the first things we look at.
In Colorado, each defendant generally pays only its own share of the fault. A property owner can ask the jury to assign fault to the attacker, even one who was never identified. That makes the owner's own failures the heart of the case.
If the injury happened at a public building, public park facility, public pool or other government property, you generally have 182 days from discovering the injury to send a written notice of claim. Miss it and you can lose the claim.
You can recover as long as your share of fault is less than the fault of the party you're suing. Your award is reduced by your percentage of fault.
Reaching out is simple
Tell us what happened
Fill out the short form below or call (303) 331-6460.
Our intake team follows up
We'll ask where it happened, how you were hurt and the treatment you've had so far.
Your case gets a real look
If it fits the cases we take, our legal team reviews it and tells you plainly where you stand.
Led by trial lawyer Marlo Greer
Marlo Greer is the lead trial lawyer at Greer Law Group in Denver and the woman behind The Pink Advocate. She doesn't take the first excuse at face value. She goes into the records, because that's usually where the answers are.
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