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When our law firm first started in 1977, computerization of the law office was something none of us even remotely considered. We worked on automobile accident cases, workers compensation cases, product liability cases, medical malpractice, and other injury cases, by hand, and only with the aid of IBM Selectric correcting typewriters and dictation equipment.

By 1980 we had our first word processor and the discovery in the auto accident cases and the other injury cases took a leap forward. That word processor cost us the princely sum of $10,000 and lasted less than a year. By the early 1980s we began investing very heavily to computerize our offices both to streamline our practice and to bring the best legal service that we could. Now we have the burgeoning internet connection of personal computer users that is changing the methods of human communication. It is an exciting time that we embrace as the best of way of continuing what we have tried to do in the forums of the past that reached very limited audiences.

Over the decades our firm had endeavored to bring something back to the community in the form of education and leadership. We support civil rights organizations, we teach at continuing legal education seminars, we work with civic associations, health care associations and many others with the goal of helping others to work through the morass of legal issues and conflicts that inevitably arise in a complex society. We know that much of what lawyers do is hugely misunderstood by the lay public. We also know that even among lawyers there is a lack of understanding of how to handle the cases of automobile accidents, workers' compensation, products liability, medical malpractice, mass torts, drug and medication injuries, and other types of injury events.

Few lawyers understand brain injury cases. Even among the practitioners of the health care field there is a pervasive ignorance of brain trauma and it many difficult and often sad consequences.

The less fortunate are being even less fortunate, and the accident injury victims are often reviled. Large corporations spend vast sums of money to vilify lawyers and the injured workers and injured drivers that dare to bring claims against them. Insurance companies have spent millions upon millions of dollars in mail, media campaigns and political campaigns to mislead the public into believing myths about specific cases and injury cases in general. Legislatures have accepted the propaganda and have passed a plethora of laws in the name of tort reform that can only be called tort deformation. Rights of the innocent victims of accidents and negligence have been lost in the vain and empty gesture of stopping a legal system supposedly out of control. What is most out of control is the rapacious greed of the insurance companies and the corporate executives who have filled their own pockets while stripping the public of its rights in the automobile accident case, the workers compensation case, the medical malpractice case, the products liability case, the unsafe drug and medication case, and the many other types of injury cases that are in some instances of epidemic proportion.

Our large staff of attorneys and support staff will be adding our voice, through the medium of the internet, in the dialogue of protecting, advocating and enforcing our many rights of those injured through the fault of others. Expect our views to be forthright and to the point. If you have any questions that we can answer, please ask us. We will hope to bring you information, strategies and methods that can help you to understand the rights of the injured person. Please stay tuned.

The Sawaya Law Firm
1600 Ogden Street
Denver, CO 80218

Personal Injury and Mediation
Posted by: Michael Sawaya
June 24, 2009
Topic: Personal Injury

From thirty years ago when mediation of a personal injury claim was very rare, to today when mediation is done in nearly every case, there could not have been a greater change in the way that disputed injury claims are resolved in Colorado. The Colorado personal injury attorneys of the court cases of the older days were given the authority to resolve claims without the adjuster's physical presence.

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SSA Needs Your Previous Work History
Posted by: Sara Delashmutt
June 22, 2009
Topic: Social Security Disability

One of the questions I am asked the most when working with people to get their disability benefits from Social Security is "why does Social Security need all this information about my past work?" The Social Security Administration (SSA) actually needs information from the last 15 years that a claimant worked to make their disability determinations.

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Colorado Accident & Inury Law Part III cont. Medicare & Medicaid Liens
Posted by: Michael Sawaya
June 22, 2009
Topic: Auto Accidents

2. The Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 ("MMSEA").

  • Requires defendants to report certain information regarding settlements with Medicare beneficiaries to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) have not provided guidance on when a Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) is required.

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Colorado Accident & Injury Law Part III cont. Medicare Liens
Posted by: Michael Sawaya
May 29, 2009
Topic: Auto Accidents

2. Medicare:

•· Medicare is a federal government healthcare program for those over 65 or those under 65 who are disabled, suffering from permanent kidney failure or diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease....

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Colorado Law Requires All Employers To Carry Workers Compensation Insurance
Posted by: Matt O'Brien
May 20, 2009
Topic: Workers' Compensation

The state of Colorado requires that all employers carry workers' compensation insurance. If the employer does not carry workers' compensation insurance, the business or the owner individually,...

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