A tree limb fell on me in an Aurora park. Who is responsible?

City trees run through the Governmental Immunity Act, a 182-day written notice and capped damages, while trees on private property (apartments, businesses, homes) follow ordinary premises liability. The tree's condition history decides both.

The owner says the windstorm makes it an 'act of God.' Is that right?

Only if the tree was healthy. Wind topples sound trees rarely and rotten ones constantly, and an arborist can tell the difference from the wood. Visible decay, dead limbs, and prior complaints turn the storm defense into a negligence case.

What should I do right after a tree injury?

Photograph everything before cleanup crews arrive, the break point, the trunk, the decay. The evidence gets hauled away within days, and with it the case.

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What Can You Recover After a Tree Injury?

Most serious tree injury cases we take resolve between $200,000 and $3 million, and the catastrophic ones go seven to eight figures. Notice is everything: a documented dying tree is a case, and arborists document beautifully.

Bigger and faster settlements come from trial preparation that starts the day you sign, and from a firm that, so far, has never lost.

With us, you speak directly with your attorney, we help you get immediate medical care, regardless whether you have insurance, and there's no fee unless we win. Contact us now for a free consultation.

Why Tree Cases Are Different

Adam Fonta, Colorado tree injury attorney, at a Colorado park | Lionheart Injury Law

The whole case lives in the wood: a cross-section of the failure point shows decay, disease, and dead tissue that was visible, and ignorable, for years. Duty follows location: businesses and landlords owe inspection of trees over walkways and parking; cities owe maintenance of park and right-of-way trees (with CGIA limits); and negligent tree services answer for botched trimming that destabilized what they touched. Our tree injury guide covers the doctrine; Aurora grows the facts.

It is premises liability at its core, the same law behind our slip and fall breakdown.

Aurora's Aging Tree Canopy

The mature canopy concentrates in original Aurora, the neighborhoods off Colfax, Del Mar, and 6th Avenue, and in the city's older parks, where sixty-year-old cottonwoods and silver maples shed massive limbs in wind and wet snow. Apartment corridors add courtyard trees over play areas and parking. Every spring storm produces a new round of failures, and a new round of owners claiming the completely rotten limb was unforeseeable.

How We Build a Tree Injury Case

Preserve the wood, photographs and, where possible, the failure section itself, before cleanup. A certified arborist reads the decay timeline. We pull the owner's trimming and inspection records, prior complaints, HOA and city forestry files, and weather data that shows the storm was ordinary, not biblical. Where a tree service worked the tree, its file joins the case.

Damages, Venue, and Deadlines

Under HB24-1472, non-economic damages are capped at $1.5 million (2025); economic damages and physical impairment damages are uncapped, and a fatal incident carries the $2,125,000 wrongful death cap. Deadlines: generally two years, but 182 days for notice when the city's trees are involved, and only days before the evidence is mulch. Venue: Arapahoe County District Court for most Aurora claims. If trial is what it takes, we are ready.

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