Winter is on its way, and that got me thinking about a client I helped a year or so ago. She fell on a thick piece of ice at her apartment complex and broke her ankle, which led to a blood clot settling in one of her lungs. That's a very dangerous condition - and it was caused by the negligence of the apartment owner for not fixing a broken drain pipe.

Allstate Insurance Co. will pay $10 million to put an end to an investigation of how it uses a computer software program to settle car accident claims.

Doctors and hospitals continue to make the same medical malpractice mistakes, and patients continue to be harmed - even killed. It needs to stop.

It's a question we hear often at The Law Offices of Dianne Sawaya. I was hurt in a car accident, or when I slipped and fell, or when I was bitten by a dog. How do I know whether I have a personal injury case or not?

Colorado law requires every driver in the state to have a minimum amount of auto insurance - $25,000 to cover damage and injuries to another individual and their vehicle, and a total of $50,000 to cover damage and injuries to all other vehicles and persons involved in the car accident.