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With its pervasive advertising and well-known jingle, the insurance giant State Farm is hard to miss. It’s the leading provider of auto and home insurance in the United States, with $193 billion in assets, 58,000 employees, and 19,000 independent contractors who work...

It can take only seconds for a car crash to turn your life upside down — and months or years of struggle to get things back on track. But for Sam Hernandez, perseverance and the right kind of legal help turned his journey to recovery into a life-altering opportunity....

We all depend on insurance companies to protect us in the worst of times. We all buy insurance hoping that we never need to submit a claim, yet trusting that we are “covered” in the event of an accident or calamity. But are you as safe as you think? As members of a...

Working for the same employer over a number of years can all too often turn into a dreary routine. But Darwin Burke, who’s worked at Franklin D. Azar & Associates for the past 32 years, has taken on so many jobs and challenges at the firm over that epic and...

After a school year that’s been tough on students everywhere, a group of sixth graders at Nevin Platt Middle School in Boulder welcomed a surprise special guest in the last week of the semester: attorney Frank Azar. That’s right. You don’t have to be of driving age to...

Streaming on HBO Max, the six-part reality series “Wahl Street” follows global superstar Mark Wahlberg as he attempts to expand his business empire while juggling family and film industry obligations. If you’ve checked out the series, you may have caught a glimpse or...

A painful and harrowing episode in the life of a 63-year-old former airport security employee came to a resolution in a Jefferson County courtroom last week. On March 31, 2021, after a three-day trial, a jury awarded Raphael $2.75 million in damages for the injuries...

The law firm of Franklin D. Azar & Associates is proud to announce that it’s joined a growing team of sponsors of an innovative program in southern Colorado, a grass-roots effort that delivers forty-pound boxes of joy to Las Animas County residents hit hard by the...

Natalie Brown and DezaRae LaCrue, two senior attorneys at Franklin D. Azar & Associates, are among the legal professionals featured in Denver’s Top Lawyers 2021, an annual directory of distinction compiled by 5280 Magazine. The magazine compiles its list by...

It was January of 1993 when attorney Robert E. Markel first brought his talents to the law firm of Franklin D. Azar & Associates. The Internet was not yet a thing, a guy named Bill Clinton was moving into the White House, and the hit song was Whitney...

Senior attorney Bob Turner has been named the 2020 recipient of the Steven R. Bristol Memorial Award, bestowed by the Workers Compensation Education Association in recognition of an individual for “tireless and outstanding work on behalf of injured...

Almost four years ago, a car crash caused by another driver’s carelessness left Richard with serious injuries and mounting medical bills. But thanks to his determination and that of his attorneys at Franklin D. Azar & Associates, Richard’s path to...

  Derek and Delanie, a brother and sister in their twenties, had a great plan for celebrating their parents’ 30th wedding anniversary: a family summer vacation in Colorado. The siblings set out with parents Diane and Dale in a rental car, exploring the mountains,...

          After a two-day trial, a Larimer County jury awarded a home health care aide more than $300,000 in damages from a car crash that caused serious arm and leg injuries.            ...

            An independent report by a legal analytics company ranks Franklin D. Azar & Associates as one of the leading law firms nationally in litigation against insurance companies....

On Thursday, December 19, a Pueblo jury awarded $337,000 to a cafeteria worker for injuries resulting from a traffic accident — more than three times the amount the other side had offered to settle the case before trial. The verdict came after three days of...

It’s official. Two car accident lawyers at FDAzar have been recognized for obtaining one of the top twenty Colorado plaintiffs’ verdicts in 2018, as compiled by the independent website TopVerdict.com. Firm attorneys Dezarae D. LaCrue and Anna N. Martinez secured a...

Meet Russell Dunn. You may have seen Russell in one of our television commercials, talking about the catastrophic motorcycle crash that changed his life. At FDAzar we represent many hard-working people like Russell who, through no fault of their own, were seriously...

A federal class-action lawsuit filed by Quora users accuses the social media company of exposing sensitive personal information of up to 100 million people to hackers, leaving the victims vulnerable to a wide range of potential cyber crimes and scams. WHAT IS QUORA?...

Attorneys for former clients of Edward Jones accuse the investment services giant of failing to disclose key aspects of a new program that generated more than $17.2 billion in revenue, much of it at the expense of “small-town, middle-class, buy-and-hold investors” who...

“Are those real people in your ads?" It’s probably the most common question prospective clients ask us at Franklin D. Azar & Associates, along with the question of whether the settlement amounts announced are “real” figures. The answers? Yes and yes. Those are...

A class action lawsuit filed against Marriott International over a massive data breach that compromised the personal information of up to 500 million people claims that the world’s largest hotel chain failed to address security flaws in an elite customer database for...