Law Firm Overview

Areas of Practice

• Bad Faith Insurance
• Ethics & Professional Responsibility
• Insurance Law 100%
• Litigation & Appeals
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Professional Malpractice Law
• Wrongful Death
• Bad Faith Law
• Long-Term Disability
• Traumatic Injury

Published Works

• First Party Bad Faith, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, 1987
• Selected Topics in First Party Insurance Bad Faith Litigation
• Topics in Bad Faith Litigation, Using Examinations Under Oath to Detect Fraud or to Support Payment, July, 1994
• Insurance Bad Faith in Colorado, May, 1995

Classes and Seminars

• Lecturer, Selected Topics in First Party Insurance Bad Faith Litigation, Professional Education Seminar, 1990
• Lecturer, Selected Topics in First Party Insurance Bad Faith Litigation, Professional Education Seminar, 1993
• Lecturer, Topics in Bad Faith Litigation, Using Examinations Under Oath To Detect Fraud or to Support Payment, 1994
• Lecturer, Insurance Bad Faith in Colorado, 1995
• Presenter: Bad Faith Seminar, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, 2002
• Disability Claims - Trials & Bad Faith, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association Convention, 2001
• Insurance Bad Faith Seminar, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, 1999
• Lecturer: "Health, Life and Disability Insurance", Colorado Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, 1997

Pro Bono Activities

• Boulder County Legal Services, 1997 - 2007
• Boulder County AIDS Project, 1997 - 2007

Representative Cases

• Sheron v. Lutheran Med. Cntr., 18 P.3d 796 (Colo. App. 2000)
• Peterman v. State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Company, 961 P.2d 487 (Colorado 1998)
• Hock v. New York Life Insurance Company, 876 P.2d 1242 (Colorado, Trial Counsel 1994)

West Practice Categories

Consumer Protection, Contracts, Disability & Illness Discrimination, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Environmental Law, Cleanup & Superfund, Water Pollution, Disability, Insurance Law, Bad Faith, Commercial Insurance, Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurance, Errors & Omissions Insurance, Fidelity, Guarantee & Surety, Insurance Malpractice, Life & Health, Motor Vehicle, Property & Casualty, Litigation & Appeals, Complex Litigation, Federal Trial Practice, State Appellate Practice, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Property Damage -- Plaintiff, Railroad Accidents -- Plaintiff, Wrongful Death -- Plaintiff, Professional Malpractice Law, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Other Professionals Malpractice, Hazardous Waste