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At Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, every case is handled by a lawyer, not a paralegal. Our hardworking attorneys get the best possible outcome in matters of catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, ski accidents, auto accidents, premises liability, defective products, and more. From offices in Denver, we help people throughout Colorado. Contact us at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. slip and fall,law,personal injury,colorado,Auto Accidents,premises liability,ski accidents,truck accident,Law Firm,car accident,denver,wrongful death,attorney,case,defective products,medical malpractice,lawyer,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, Personal Injury Lawyers Chalat Hatten & Koupal Colorado
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At Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, our lawyers bring their experience to personal injury cases involving auto accidents, ski and snowboard accidents, premises liability (such as slip and fall injuries, drowning, explosions, and fires), and medical malpractice. Personal injury cases come in a wide variety of causes and impacts. People come to our attorneys after a terrible tragedy, and because we only take 100-200 cases a year, they each get plenty of personal attention. From offices in Denver, we help people throughout Colorado. Contact us at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. slip and fall,law,slip and fall injuries,Ski,explosions,personal injury,colorado,Auto Accidents,fires,premises liability,truck accident,Law Firm,car accident,denver,wrongful death,attorney,case,snowboard accidents,medical malpractice,lawyer,drowning,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, Personal Injury Attorneys Accident Lawyers Denver Colorado
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Most medical malpractice cases are dismissed, or the victim loses at trial. So it is very important to have an experienced attorney reviewing your case to determine whether it is viable. You must also have the matter reviewed by an expert witness, and at Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, we get the best. Our lawyers got $10.1 million verdict in a pediatric medical negligence case. From offices in Denver, we help people throughout Colorado. Contact us at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. law,medical malpractice attorneys,birth injury,pediatric,colorado,military medical malpractice,physician,nurse practitioner,health care provider,Law Firm,denver,wrongful death,attorney,case,serious personal injuries,medical malpractice,lawyer,medical negligence,hospital,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, Medical Malpractice Lawyers Denver Colorado Attorneys
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Trucking accidents are very different from other auto accidents because of the many Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations. At Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, our lawyers understand those rules, and take truck crash cases throughout Colorado, that involve driver inattention, failure to apply tire chains, and other actions that cause terrible injuries. In one case, we got records that proved the truck driver was driving for over 12 hrs. Our attorneys work with clients and their family members to get the best possible outcome. From offices in Denver, we help people throughout Colorado. Contact us at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. slip and fall,law,personal injury,colorado,Auto Accidents,premises liability,ski accidents,truck accident,Law Firm,car accident,denver,wrongful death,attorney,case,defective products,medical malpractice,lawyer,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, Trucking Accident Lawyers Denver Colorado Injury Attorneys
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We have a national reputation in skiing and snowboard cases dating back to the late 1970’s. Since then we’ve handled skiing cases all over the United States on behalf of a wide variety of clients, including nationally recognized athletes, professional ski instructors, and foreign nationals from Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Chalat Hatten & Koupal provides financial support to the St. Anthony’s ski helmet program for study in research to demonstrate the safety features of wearing ski helmets and the effectiveness of preventing severe brain injuries during ski accidents when one is wearing a helmet. We have a published record of million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. Those are things that get published in the newspaper and in the media, and attorneys, defense council, insurance companies see these things and they know the reputation that we have. Our firm is bold, aggressive, yet honest and ethical. Contact us at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. law,ski accidents,snowboarding accident,personal injury,Law Firm,denver,colorado,wrongful death,case,attorney,lawyer,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, Skiing Accident Attorney Denver Colorado Ski Injury Lawyers
NBC 9 News Too Many Colorado Lawyers? Attorney Jim Chalet
The ethical and economic problems of having so many lawyers in Colorado. Jim Chalat says the real problem is that too many lawyers fighting for too few clients puts many in an economic crunch. Some lawyers take cases that are outside their abilities, cut corners, and commit acts which have led to an increase in the size of malpractice judgments. Contact Denver attorney Jim Chalat at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. law,denver,colorado,case,attorney,lawyer,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, NBC 9 News Too Many Colorado Lawyers? Attorney Jim Chalet
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NBC 9 news report on medical malpractice showing what’s involved when patients look to a court for healing. The chances for success for a plaintiff are extremely low. Attorney Jim Chalat says you have to really know what the doctor did wrong. It just can’t be a bad result because things sometimes don’t go well, even at the hands of the best surgeons. Contact Denver lawyer Jim Chalat at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. law,personal injury,Law Firm,denver,colorado,wrongful death,case,attorney,medical malpractice,lawyer,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, NBC 9 News Medical Malpractice Jim Chalat Colorado Attorney
NBC 9 News Statutory Cap Monetary Limits Attorney Jim Chalat
Colorado statutory cap limits the amount of money you can recover when a public employee is negligent. The current statutory cap, established 20 years ago, is $150,000. Since then medical costs have soared since then. If you were to buy $150,000 worth of medical services in 1979, it would cost you more than half a million dollars to replace those services today,” says Attorney Jim Chalat. “These types of governmental immunity statues are the ultimate special interest legislation”. Contact Denver lawyer Jim Chalat at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. statutory cap,law,slip and fall,monetary limits,personal injury,colorado,truck accident,Law Firm,car accident,denver,neglgent,wrongful death,attorney,case,lawyer,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, NBC 9 News Statutory Cap Monetary Limits Attorney Jim Chalat
Nathan Hall Trial Skiing Accident Denver Colorado Attorney
Nathan Hall was accused of skiing out of control and colliding with another skier, killing him. Lawyer Jim Chalat, who has handled many ski injury cases, said the outcome of Hall’s case isn’t as important as the message of the case sliding off the slopes and into the courtroom. If you go skiing, and you ski recklessly, and someone is hurt as a result, then you are responsible just as you would be if you were driving recklessly. Contact Denver lawyer Jim Chalat at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. law,ski accidents,personal injury,Law Firm,denver,colorado,wrongful death,Nathan Hall,case,attorney,lawyer,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, Nathan Hall Trial Skiing Accident Denver Colorado Attorney
Reckless Skiing Trial Colorado Snowboard & Ski Injury Lawyer
The importance of the Nathan Hall case is that is the first case where there are criminal sanctions being imposed upon the reckless skier. Attorney Jim Chalat says he’s sick of people getting killed on the slopes by these nuts that ski too fast. Contact Denver skiing and snowboard lawyer Jim Chalat at 866-701-7292 or visit http://www.chalathatten.com. law,ski accidents,snowboarding accident,personal injury,Law Firm,denver,colorado,wrongful death,case,attorney,lawyer,Chalat Hatten & Koupal PC, Reckless Skiing Trial Colorado Snowboard & Ski Injury Lawyer
Eagle Valley Enterprise
Sunday Extra
Sunday, March 24, 1996
By Scott N. Miller, Sunday Extra editor
(distributed with the Sunday Denver Post in Eagle and Garfield Counties, Colorado)
Skiing's a pretty safe sport, overall. But a few times a year, the lawyers get called out.
Jim Chalat's one of those lawyers... [He] started by accident in 1980, when Arlene Abady, editor of the Colorado Bar Association's monthly law journal, THE COLORADO LAWYER --who knew Chalat skied competitively in high school and college--called to ask him to write a skiing-related article for a THE COLORADO LAWYER (See, "Ski Tips for Attorneys," The Colo. Lawyer, March 1980-ed.).
That article was the first of 20 or so ski-related journal pieces and more and more involvement in the legal side of skiing. That involvement includes not only experience as a litigator and consultant, but also editorialist.
A couple of times a year since 1988, Chalat has self-published Ski Safety News, a fact- and opinion-filled look at developments in ski industry law. Chalat sees Ski Safety News as an amusing side project, but it offers a reader a look into the arcane world of ski law, along with one trial lawyer's opinions about it. Chalat's perspective is an interesting one, considering the number of cases he's handled over the years, including that of dancer Chatherine Ulissey in 1994.
Ulissey, a professional ballet dancer, suffered a career-threatening knee injury after a collision with another skier at Snowmass in 1993. A federal court jury awarded Ulissey $2.4 million ...
Chalat noted that in Colorado last year there were 15,000 ski patrol contacts reported. That's out of about 11 million skier days. Of those 15,000 injuries, Chalat said a "very, very small percentage" feel they've suffered at the hands of others. And of those, an even smaller percentage of people actually end up in litigation...
Most of those accidents, like the Ulissey case, are between individuals. But there are times when ski areas may be at fault, and that's when the going gets especially tricky.
For the past five years, ski areas in Colorado have operated under a revised Ski Safety Act. That law--at least as originally interpreted--pushes most, if not all, ski area conditions into the "inherent dangers of the sport" category. That interpretation was seen as the virtual death of litigation against ski areas.
But that interpretation of the law got a jolt from the Colorado Supreme Court late last year when the justices ruled for the plaintiff in "Graven vs. Vail..."
Actually, noted Chalat (who was appointed by the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association to work as amicus curiae on the case,-ed.) the court ruled only that the case must go to trial. At issue is whether Vail Associates should have marked a ravine David Graven fell from in 1992. VA argued the change in conditions was part of the "inherent danger of the sport and the case should have been summarily dismissed...
In the latest Ski Safety News, Chalat notes that while resort operators have criticized the decision, there's a lot of evidence that ski areas won't be particularly hurt by it.
Using a report by Professor Charles Goeldner of the University of Colorado Graduate School of Business Administration as evidence, Chalat maintains that not only are Colorado ski areas remarkably profitable (an average of 17 percent per year), but that they buy insurance in "a highly competitive market..."
Narrowing the definition of "inherent danger" may make ski areas more accountable, argued Chalat. And, noting that state ski areas claim to make every effort to inform skiers about individual responsibilities, he added, "Responsibility should go two ways, don't you think?"
But that sometimes requires holding someone's feet to the fire. And when those feet wear ski boots, Jim Chalat may be the guy you want to do it.
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