Colorado Supreme Court rules client may sue lawyer for deceptive trade practices
A client may sue an attorney for deceptive advertising under the state's consumer protection law, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled.
The plaintiff hired the attorney after seeing television ads that represented the attorney's law firm as highly skilled at negotiating with insurance
Based on the firm's advice, he accepted a $4,000 offer from the truck driver's insurer to settle the claim. He contended that the amount of the settlement was far below the real value of his claim, and that he had already accumulated more than $17,000 in medical costs and lost more than $7,000 in wages at the time the firm advised him to settle the case.
He sued, claiming the firm violated the state consumer protection act by using deceptive advertising to induce him and other members of the public to hire it.
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