Apartment Assault Lawyer in Denver, CO
Assaulted at your apartment complex? Lionheart Injury Law holds Denver landlords and property managers accountable when broken security invites violent crime.
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What Can You Recover After an Apartment Assault?
The average apartment assault case we take settles for $500,000 to $5 million, and the worst of them reach seven to eight figures. The case runs against the landlord's insurance, not the attacker's empty pockets.
Insurers pay more, and pay sooner, when they know a jury is coming. We build every file for the courtroom from the first day, and so far we are undefeated.
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.
When a Denver Landlord Is Liable for an Assault
Colorado's Premises Liability Act (C.R.S. § 13-21-115) makes property owners answer for dangers they knew or should have known about, and courts recognize that crime can be exactly such a danger. The question is foreseeability: prior incidents at the complex, crime in the immediate area, and tenant complaints the management ignored. Our negligent security practice is built on proving that the violence was predictable and preventable.
The Pattern at Denver Complexes
The failures repeat across the city's rental corridors: broken gates and propped doors that management knows about for months, burned-out lighting in lots and stairwells, cameras that are props (unplugged, unmonitored, or overwritten in days), security patrols cut from the budget, and no screening of who gets keys. Large out-of-state operators run some Denver complexes on maintenance backlogs measured in seasons; the same backlog that leaves your sink broken leaves the gate broken, and the gate is life safety. When inadequate security enables a sexual assault, the same premises case applies with the sensitivity that case deserves.
How We Build an Apartment Assault Case
Immediate preservation demands for camera footage (overwritten fast), the property's incident reports, work orders, and security contracts, and the 911/CAD history for the address going back years. A security expert audits the property against industry standards: lighting levels, access control, camera coverage, staffing. The criminal case against the attacker proceeds separately; your civil case against the property does not wait for it.
What Types of Damages Are Available?
Under HB24-1472, non-economic damages are capped at $1.5 million (2025); economic damages and physical impairment damages are uncapped, and a fatal case carries the $2,125,000 wrongful death cap. Assault cases carry heavy psychological injuries; PTSD treatment, relocation costs, and lost work all belong in the claim, and disfigurement from the attack sits outside the cap.
Venue, Deadlines, and Trial
These cases are filed in Denver District Court downtown. The police record is the backbone: Denver Police Department incident reports and the 911/CAD call history for the property, obtained through DPD records, establish both your incident and the property's history. Deadlines: generally two years for premises and assault-based claims, 182 days for written notice when a government entity owns the property. Security camera footage is overwritten in days or weeks; the preservation letter cannot wait. If trial is what it takes, we are ready.
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