Jackie’s practice is devoted to defending individuals and corporations, insurance companies and their insureds from pre-litigation investigation through appeals. Jackie writes coverage opinions, trains claims adjusters and managers, and defends them when they are accused of unreasonable conduct or bad faith. Jackie defends individuals in personal injury cases no matter the claims alleged. She knows Premises Liability, Auto, Defamation, Wrongful Death and Property Law. She also has experience in Construction Defect, Real Estate Disclosure, Fraud and Misrepresentation, and Contracts. She files interpleader actions on behalf of Life Insurance Companies and provides pre-litigation advice regarding all kinds of insurance claims.

• Discovered prior automobile accident and litigation in which claimant in slip and fall case had claimed similar injuries and misrepresented prior history under oath resulting in favorable settlement to retail client.
• Prevailed on a number of pretrial motions in a high exposure insurance bad faith case, leading to a favorable settlement for the client. The Court’s rulings excluded most of the Plaintiff’s bad faith expert’s opinions, the policy limits, evidence about plaintiff’s reasonable expectations when purchasing coverage, reserves, and speculative future lost wages.
• Argued in her contributions to the Brief of Amicus Curiae Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, the position that the lower courts erred in relying on extrinsic evidence to find ambiguity in an insurance contract. In agreement, the Colorado Supreme Court issued its opinion in Hansen v. American Family.
• Successfully defended a Rule 702 challenge to a client’s accident reconstruction/biomechanical expert in federal district court.
• Successfully moved to strike an opposing party’s experts which were untimely designated in federal district court, resulting in a favorable settlement of high exposure insurance bad faith case.
• Obtained a defense verdict for insurer in Pueblo County, prevailing on claims for breach of contract, bad faith, and unreasonable delay/denial of benefits under C.R.S. § 10-3-1115/1116.
• Authored appellate briefing resulting in Court of Appeals upholding trial court’s dismissal of case against insurer on summary judgment and defeating the plaintiff/appellant’s claim for costs.
• Prevailed on summary judgment on claims of insurance bad faith and statutory unreasonable delay/denial in underinsured motorist benefit case involving multiple accidents and debatable injuries.
• Provided oral argument before Colorado Court of Appeals resulting in clarification of unsettled law involving inclusion of lien/subrogation language in statutory offers of settlement.
• Obtained defense verdict for individual clients in auto accident jury trials.
• Defeated claims against insurance clients for punitive damages.
• Uncovered opposing party’s false representations resulting in dismissal of case against insurer in underinsured motorist coverage claim.
• Obtained dismissal as sanction against opposing party in bodily injury case for opposing party’s misrepresentations under oath in discovery.
• Obtained defense verdict in favor of insurance company at trial on claims of breach of contract and unreasonable delay/denial of benefits under C.R.S. § 10-3-1115/1116.

• B.A., Louisiana State University
• J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law

• Colorado
• United States District Court, District of Colorado
• Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Colorado Bar Association
• Arapahoe Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Colorado Defense Lawyers Association
• National Association of Women Lawyers
• Defense Research Institute

• DeAvila v. Estate of DeHerrera, 75 P.3d 1144 (Colo. App. 2003)
• Strunk v. Goldberg, 258 P.3d 334 (Colo. App. 2011)
• Calderon v. American Family Mut. Ins. Co., 383 P.3d 676 (Colo. 2016).
• American Family Mut. Ins. Co. v. Hansen, 375 P.3d 115 (Colo. 2016) on behalf of Amicus Colorado Defense Lawyer’s Association.
• Hughes v Essentia Ins., 516 P.3d 31 (Colo. App. 2022)

• Colorado Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Insurance
• Personal Injury A to Z: Evidence Presentation
• Personal Injury A to Z: Expert Examination—Daubert, Frye and Other Challenges
• Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act and Reptile Theory in Bad Faith Claims
• Applying the Rules of Evidence: Get Yours in, Keep Theirs Out
• January 2023, The Weaponized Jury: Kill or Be Killed
• January 2023, Reservation of Rights
• April 2022, ABOTA Masters in Trial
• January 2022, Defending Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Concussion Syndrome Claims
• November 2021, Applying the Rules of Evidence: Get Yours In, Keep Theirs Out
• December 2019, Personal Injury A to Z: Evidence Presentation and Expert Examination—Daubert, Frye, and Other Challenges

• Colorado Bar Foundation Fellow and Trustee
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• AV Preeminent Rated Martindale Hubbell
• Selected to the Colorado Super Lawyers List for Civil Litigation Defense in 2019-2023
• Top 40 Under 40

720-598-0735

4949 S. Syracuse Street, Suite 500

Denver, Colorado 80237