ESTATE OF CASPER v. GUARANTEE TRUST LIFE

Court of Appeals No. 14CA2423.

421 P.3d 1184 (2016)

2016 COA 167

Estate of Michael Dean CASPER, by and through Nick Casper, personal representative, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GUARANTEE TRUST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Illinois corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Levin Rosenberg PC, Bradley A. Levin , Nelson A. Waneka , Denver, Colorado; Keating Wagner Polidori Free PC, Zachary C. Warzel , Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Hall & Evans, LLC, Kevin E. O'Brien , Alan Epstein , Malcolm S. Mead , Cristin J. Mack , Denver, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellant.


¶ 1 Under Colorado law, the death of a plaintiff in a personal injury action extinguishes his entitlement to recover noneconomic and punitive damages. But what happens when the plaintiff dies after those damages have been awarded by a jury but before the district court has entered a judgment? This question had never...

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