highest standard in Colorado

2015"It is only where all minds concur that the defendant is engaged in an activity that poses a high risk of injury to others that the court, as a matter of law, may instruct the jury to hold the defendant to the highest standard of care." Id.

2013See Imperial Distribution, 741 P.2d at 1255 .

2013Imperial Distribution, 74l P.2d at 1255 (citing Blueflame Gas, 679 P.2d 579 (propane gas); Federal Ins.

1987See Blueflame Gas, 679 P.2d at 587-89 .

2021See Bayer, 960 P.2d at 78-80 (explaining that, as defined by the legislature, the standard of conduct applicable to ski lift operators in a statutory claim of negligence per se is ordinary and reasonable care consistent with the rules and regulations of the SSA and PTSA and deciding that, regardless of the SSA and PTSA, for common law claims of negligence beyond the statutory duties with which a ski operator is required by law to comply, the standard remains as the highest standard of care).

2004As pertinent here, an invitee "may recover for damages caused by the landowner's unreasonable failure to exercise reasonable care to protect against dangers of which he [or she] actually knew or should have known." Section 13-21-115(8)(c)(), C.R.S.2002; see *1087 also Springer v. City & County of Denver, 13 P.3d 794, 804 (Colo.2000)(deseribing the elements of landowner liability to invitees in terms of (1) breach of a duty to use reasonable care to protect against a danger on the property, and (2) actual or constructive knowledge of the danger).

2004"The highest standard of care is owed the 'invitee,' a lesser is owed the 'licensee, and a yet lesser is owed the trespasser." Maes v. Lakeview Associates, Ltd., 892 P.2d 875, 377 (Colo.App.1994), aff'd, 907 P.2d 580 (Colo.1995).