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Title: 2011 Annual Survey of Law
Chapter: Torts
Chapter: Torts
Author: John W. Grund
Format: Electronic Download
The 2011 Annual Survey of Colorado Law is written by top lawyers in their fields and covers many of the most critical areas of Colorado law and practice. The Annual Survey is an important resource to help you stay current with legal updates and trends.
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What a difference a year makes! Last year, the Introduction to this chapter characterized the developmentsin tort law in 2010 as relatively unexciting,
except as it concerned what was passed by the legislature.This year, the General Assembly did little to pique the interests of tort litigators, whereas the Colorado
appellate courts issued opinions covering a wide range of topics that should be compelled reading for all of us. The Colorado Supreme Court published noteworthy decisionsinterpreting the Dram Shop Statute (Build It &They Will Drink, Inc. v. Strauch), the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act (Henisse v. First Transit,Inc.), the Civil Theft Statute (Steward Software Co. v.Kopcho), and the Punitive Damages Statute (Averyt v.Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.), as well as several other noteworthy
opinions addressing tort and damages issuesthat practitioners in the fields face on a regular basis:Kendrick v. Pippin (res ipsa loquitur doctrine and sudden-
emergency instruction), Day v. Johnson (medical malpractice), Allen v. Steele (legal malpractice and negligent misrepresentation), Qwest Services Corp. v.
Blood (constitutionality of significant punitive-damagesaward) — and that is not an all-inclusive list. On October 31, 2011, the court also issued several opinions
— each of which involved tort or insurance claims —that addressed the burden of proof as well as some elementalissues in the certification of class actions. The
Colorado Court of Appeals output likewise produced abroad spectrum of cases of interest that are summarized below, several of which concerned matters of first
impression or at least had a novel twist to them, including questions about the proof necessary for but-for causation in a transactional-malpractice case; whether a
parent’s exculpatory release waived her child’s recreational-liability claim; the independent nature of a claimfor negligent infliction of emotional distress; and the
trade-secret status of a proprietary computer database,to list a few. All and all, it was the year that had something that should interest almost any civil litigator —
2012 will be hard-pressed to match it.
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