Colorado is expected to get more than $150 million from a multi-billion-dollar national settlement with CVS and Walgreens for their roles in the opioid crisis. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Monday he finalized agreements with the two pharmacy companies as part of a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general that worked to secure more than $10 billion nationwide. CVS will pay $5 billion, and Walgreens will pay $5.7 billion, totaling $10.7 billion.
Mike Inglis knows he probably will receive little from the $353 million verdict a Jefferson County jury reached this week in the civil case he brought against the driver who struck and killed his wife, Gwen, last year while the couple were riding bikes on West Alameda Parkway. But it’s important to send a message about drunken and distracted driving, he said.
Insys Therapeutics is the only drug marketer whose top executives were jailed as part of the opioid epidemic. The fallout from the company’s cash-for-scrips strategy that made it a Wall Street favorite reverberates today. With two weeks to go in the year, Alec Burlakoff dashed off an urgent email to sales representative Daniel Tondre.
The Regional Transportation District has filed a confidential investigation report on its September light-rail train derailment with state regulators and is now working on repairs to the damaged section of the R-Line, the agency said Monday. RTD is sticking with its plan to restore service to a four-mile segment between the Florida and 13th Avenue stations sometime in December, though a news release says it might resume sooner. That will depend in part on discussions with Aurora city officials about the “train-traffic interface,” in which the R-Line turns 90 degrees, at street level, through the intersection of South Sable Boulevard and East Exposition Drive.
A man killed after being hit by a vehicle while crossing the road in southeast Colorado Springs earlier this month has been identified as 58-year-old Rondell Winn, Colorado Springs police said Wednesday.
Around 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, police responded to the area of the 1900 block of South Academy Boulevard, near the intersection with Chelton Road, for an auto-pedestrian crash. Officers arrived to find a deceased male on scene who had been hit by a vehicle while crossing Academy Boulevard, police said.
A Pueblo man who was waiting for a ride in a hospital lobby last year died after four security guards put him in a chokehold and restrained him prone on the ground — and now the man’s widow is suing, accusing hospital officials of lying to her and trying to cover up the incident.
A Utah jury this month awarded a Park City bowling alley employee nearly $2.4 million after a Vail Resorts employee smashed her hand with a bowling ball during a company outing three years ago. Amy Herzog alleged in a February 2020 lawsuit that she was attempting to fix a clogged gutter in one of the Jupiter Bowl lanes when a Vail Resorts employee “engaged in a dangerous 360-degree helicopter spin, while cradling the bowling ball in the palm of his hand and let the ball fly as he completed his 360-degree turn.”
Where have our manners gone? Our roads could be so much safer if we all treated other drivers how we would like to be treated.
The terms “ordinary negligence” and “gross negligence” frequently appear in discussions of legal matters. Many people do not understand that there is a distinction between the two terms. Negligence is the failure to use the level of care and caution that an ordinary person would use in similar circumstances. It often involves a careless mistake or inattention that causes an injury.
