Who is liable for an assault in a parking garage: the owner or the operator?

Often both, plus a security contractor if one exists. Garages are layered: the property owner, the parking operator running it, the valet company, the anchor business whose customers use it. The contracts allocate security responsibility, and we obtain them early to map every defendant and policy.

How do you prove the attack was foreseeable?

With the property's own history: prior assaults, thefts, and break-ins at the facility, the 911/CAD call record for the address, and crime data for the surrounding blocks. A garage with a history of car break-ins is on notice that people who interrupt those crimes get hurt.

What if the lot belongs to the city or RTD?

The case can still proceed, but the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act requires written notice within 182 days, a much shorter clock than the general deadline. Publicly owned lots, garages, and transit facilities all trigger it, so the ownership question gets answered in week one.

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What Can You Recover After a Parking Lot Attack?

Most serious parking lot assault cases we take resolve between $250,000 and $5 million, and the catastrophic ones go seven to eight figures. Owner, operator, and security contractor can all owe you: three defendants, three policies.

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.

Why Parking Facilities Breed These Cases

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A parking facility concentrates everything an attacker wants: predictable foot traffic, isolation, sight-line cover between vehicles, and exits in every direction. Colorado's Premises Liability Act (C.R.S. § 13-21-115) requires owners and operators to respond reasonably to that known risk with lighting, cameras, patrols, and access control. When they don't, the case belongs to our negligent security practice: proving the danger was documented and the response was a budget line.

Denver's Parking Landscape

Downtown's multi-level garages serve LoDo nightlife and event crowds leaving Ball Arena, Coors Field, and Empower Field late at night; surface lots along the retail corridors sit dark after close; and transit and park-n-Ride facilities add the governmental notice wrinkle. Security experts measure these facilities against published lighting standards (the foot-candle levels the industry itself sets), camera coverage maps, and patrol logs. The gap between the standard and the facility's reality is the case.

How We Build a Parking Lot Assault Case

The lighting audit happens fast, before the owner quietly replaces bulbs: a nighttime inspection with light-meter readings, photographed and preserved. Camera footage demanded the same week; the ownership and operating contracts mapped; the facility's incident history and the address's 911/CAD record pulled; and the security contractor's staffing logs obtained. Where the facility is public, the 182-day CGIA notice is served immediately while the investigation continues.

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. Robbery-related attacks often produce head injuries and lasting psychological harm; both are documented and claimed, and impairment 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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