Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Bad Faith Insurance
• Insurance Law
• Litigation & Appeals
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Professional Malpractice Law
• Wrongful Death

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 (Colo. 1998)
• Hock v. New York Life Insurance Company, 876 P.2d 1242 (Colo. 1994 Trial Counsel)

West Practice Categories

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

Bar Admissions

• Colorado, 1978
• U.S. Federal Courts, 1978
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 2003

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Association for Justice, Insurance and Commercial Law Section (Member)
• Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
• Colorado Bar Association, Litigation Section (Member)
• Boulder County Colorado Bar Association (Member)
• Miller & Harrison, LLC (Of Counsel)

Classes and Seminars

• Presenter: "The Role of Personal Counsel", Colorado Block Buster Seminar, 2009
• 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 - 2009
• Boulder County AIDS Project, 1997 - 2009
• Non-Profit Board Service

Education

• University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado, 1978
  J.D.
• University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1974
  B.A.
  Honors: With Distinction

Published Works

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

Address

2305 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80304

Phones

(303) 449-2830
1-888-816-2830 (Toll Free)

Faxes

(303) 449-2198

Emails

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Websites

http://www.taffetlaw.com