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Coronavirus: Latest Guidelines

By |April 7th, 2020|Coronavirus|

Good News for Colorado On the evening of April 6, 2020, Governor Polis, while wearing a cloth facemask printed with a Colorado logo, extended Colorado’s Stay-at-Home order until April 26.  He also shared some welcome news: social distancing measures are working.  The rate of new COVID-19 infections in Colorado has decreased markedly, from doubling every [...]

Time to Tone up Your Insurance Policies

By |January 6th, 2020|Homeowner's Insurance, Underinsured Motorist Coverage, Uninsured Motorist Coverage|

Happy New Year!  Time to eat some veggies, exercise, and tone up your insurance policies. For Auto Make sure your auto insurance deductibles, limits, and primary driver designations are up to date.  Most importantly, make sure you have Underinsured Motorist Coverage for bodily injury (UM/UIM) and med pay.  Sometimes auto insurers encourage people to opt [...]

Avoid These Common Holiday Injuries

By |December 13th, 2019|Auto Accidents, Catastrophic Injury, Personal Injury, Safe Driving Tips, Slip and Fall Accidents|

Between decorating, shopping, school performances and parties, things can get pretty crazy in December.  Here are some tips to help you avoid the most common holiday injuries. 1: Decorate safely. The most common holiday injuries involve falls from roofs and ladders.  Make sure someone is available to help you if you fall.  Keep children on [...]

Does it Pay to be Nice?

By |November 6th, 2019|Interesting Studies|

In America, we have a certain dissonance when it comes to the idea of nice.  While schools teach our children that they must be nice (or be punished) even kindergarteners can see that being nice can get you tripped on the playground.  Our government doesn’t exactly run on niceness, and our laws aren’t always enforced [...]

Vision Zero Sees Progress

By |October 30th, 2019|Auto Accidents, Bicycle Accidents, Colorado Driving, Safe Driving Tips|

Vision Zero.  It’s a cool name for a radical goal: to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries for all drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians to zero. The concept began in Sweden in the 1990s, has proven successful across Europe, and was adopted by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock in 2016.  Vision Zero goes beyond the traditional, piecemeal [...]

Red Light Cameras: An Ongoing Debate

By |October 16th, 2019|Colorado Driving|

Hate red light cameras?  You’re not alone. In February of this year, Colorado’s legislature considered the fourth bill in a decade that would have repealed the rights of local jurisdictions to use automated vehicle identification systems, including red-light cameras.  The bill’s sponsors argued the cameras erode civil liberties, do nothing to promote public safety, and [...]

Senior Drivers: Fact vs Fiction

By |October 3rd, 2019|Auto Accidents, Catastrophic Injury, Colorado Driving|

Maybe it’s the elderly gentleman going 50 on the highway.  Maybe it’s the sweet old lady who slows…way…down…to…turn.  Maybe your mother has trouble distinguishing red lights from brake lights at night, or maybe you do.  The point is, driving requires certain physical abilities that tend to diminish with age.  Most of us will eventually ask [...]

Homeowner’s Insurance: Know Your Limits

By |September 18th, 2019|Homeowner's Insurance, Premises Liability|

Tornado!  Fire!  Rampaging dinosaurs!  Multiple disasters are great for the movies. But real life, not so much.  That’s why homeowner’s insurance exists: to protect you from real disasters you don’t even want to think about, typically fire, windstorm, hail, rain, riots, explosion, or theft.  It also provides liability coverage if someone gets hurt on your [...]