Denver Commercial Vehicle Accident Lawyer

Denver Commercial Vehicle Accident Lawyers for Colorado PI Claims

A crash with a work van, a landscaping truck, a tree-trimming bucket truck, a local delivery van, or another company-owned vehicle is still a Colorado personal injury claim. It is not automatically an 18-wheeler trucking case. The vehicle may carry a commercial auto policy, the driver may have been on the clock, and the employer may share responsibility — but the investigation is built around that company vehicle and that crash, not FMCSA hours-of-service logs for a tractor-trailer.

If you were hit by a semi, big rig, or interstate motor carrier, use our Denver truck accident attorneys. This page is for commercial vehicles that are not that: tree-trim and arborist trucks, chipper trucks, landscaping and construction work vans, utility trucks, box vans used by local businesses, and similar company vehicles on Denver and Front Range roads.

Conduit Law is a Denver personal injury firm. Founding attorney Elliot Singer works these files the same way he works every serious crash: kind with the client, precise with the coverage, and unwilling to let the first company explanation close the claim. Call (720) 432-7032 for a free consultation. No fee unless we win.

What Counts as a Commercial Vehicle Here

For this practice area, “commercial vehicle” means a vehicle used in a business that is not being handled as an 18-wheeler / motor-carrier trucking case. Common Colorado examples include:

• Tree-trimming and arborist vehicles: bucket trucks, chipper trucks, and crew vehicles used in tree work.
• Landscaping and property-maintenance trucks: work trucks and trailers moving equipment between jobs.
• Work vans and local delivery vans: contractor vans, service vans, and company cargo vans.
• Utility and municipal work vehicles: company trucks that are not interstate semis.

The label on the door is not the whole legal question. The questions that move the file are: who owned the vehicle, who employed the driver, what policy applies, and what the physical evidence shows about the crash.

Tree-Trim and Other Company-Vehicle Crashes

Tree-trimming and landscaping outfits run bucket trucks, chippers, and crew vehicles through Denver neighborhoods and along Front Range corridors. Those vehicles are larger than a passenger car, often sit in travel lanes or block sight lines while a crew works, and they are insured as commercial operations — not as a family auto. When one of those vehicles is involved in an MVA, the claim is a Colorado personal injury case against the driver, the company, or both. It is not an RV case and it is not a trucking docket.

Early work on these files is ordinary and unglamorous: police report, photos, the company name on the vehicle, declarations pages, and whether the driver was working at the time of impact. That is how coverage gets identified. Guessing the vehicle type from a nickname on a website is how results get parked on the wrong page.

Colorado Law That Actually Applies

These are Colorado motor-vehicle injury claims. The filing deadline is generally three years under C.R.S. § 13-80-101. Colorado’s modified comparative negligence rule under C.R.S. § 13-21-111 still applies: recovery is available if you are less than 50 percent at fault, reduced by your share. Non-economic damages in ordinary injury cases are subject to the current statutory cap; economic damages (medical bills, wage loss, future care) are not capped the same way.

If a public entity owned the vehicle, a written notice of claim may be due within 182 days under the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act. That deadline is separate from the three-year lawsuit deadline. If the crash looks like it involves a city, county, or state vehicle, say so in the first call.

Company vehicles often sit on a commercial auto policy with higher limits than a personal auto policy. That is a coverage fact, not a promise about what any one claim will recover. The number in your case depends on the injuries, the proof, and the policy that actually applies.

How These Claims Are Built

A commercial-vehicle MVA is won or lost on records the company controls. We send preservation letters, identify every applicable policy, and connect the medical timeline to the crash before anyone treats the file like a fender-bender.

• Vehicle and employer: who owned it, who dispatched it, and whether the driver was in the course of employment.
• Coverage: commercial auto, employer liability, and any UM/UIM or MedPay that still applies.
• Scene proof: photos, witness names, body-cam or dash-cam, and the police report.
• Medical proof: treatment from the first exam through MMI, including future care when the record supports it.

If the same crash also involved a passenger car, start with this page when the at-fault vehicle was a company work vehicle, and use our Denver car accident lawyers for ordinary auto claims. Catastrophic injury work still routes through our Denver personal injury lawyers and, when a death is involved, our Denver wrongful death lawyers.

What This Page Is Not

This is not a trucking page. We do not treat a tree-trim MVA as an 18-wheeler case, and we do not park commercial-vehicle results on the car page or the truck page. Interstate motor carriers, FMCSA hours-of-service, and tractor-trailer wrecks belong on the truck page. Ordinary two-car crashes belong on the car page.

Talk to Us

If a work van, tree-trim truck, or other commercial vehicle injured you in Denver or anywhere in Colorado, call (720) 432-7032 or request a free case review. We will tell you which page — and which coverage theory — actually fits the crash. No fee unless we win.