A new lawsuit filed against DaVita, a kidney-dialysis giant that’s among the most prominent companies based in Denver, echo some of the allegations in a scorching exposé of the firm and the industry by HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The complaint, one of two collective actions being pressed on behalf of past and present DaVita employees, claims that clinics are severely understaffed and the assembly line pace of care that’s maintained in an effort to maximize profits exploits workers and endangers patients’ lives.

Longtime CBS4 weather forecaster Ed Greene is transitioning into a part-time role at the station, where he’s worked since 1981, with Lauren Whitney poised to replace him on the outlet’s highest-profile newscasts. But a station source tells Westword that what was portrayed by the Denver Post as a brusque dumping was actually a deliberate process negotiated over the course of a year with the full cooperation of Greene, whose evident displeasure over the plan left management feeling blindsided.

The latest development in dueling lawsuits between former KYGO personality David Mueller and pop star Taylor Swift over an alleged butt groping incident prior to a June 2013 concert at Denver’s Pepsi Center involves a court fight over Swift’s desire to use testimony from CU Boulder associate professor and gender studies expert Lorraine Bayard de Volo. According to a motion recently filed by the DJ’s legal team, Bayard de Volo “intends to opine that Mr. Mueller had the profile of a person likely to sexually assault women.”

College coed Philippa “Pippa” McCully’s lawsuit claims that she was badly injured during a bizarre excessive-force episode at the El Paso County jail and then refused medical treatment for a knee injury severe enough to startle the team doctor for the Miami Dolphins. Video of the incident appears to confirm much of McCully’s account. But her attorney says the case has dragged on for more than a year in part because it took place during the administration of former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, a lawsuit defendant whose recent indictment on felony charges that include extortion and official misconduct arising from an alleged sex scandal involving at least three employees has complicated the situation immeasurably.

A just-released report about the ski lift accident that killed San Antonio mom Kelly Huber in December 2016 reveals that the culprit was an electronic drive whose failure raises concerns that go well beyond this single incident. Indeed, the 151-page document notes that “due to the unprecedented nature of this dynamic occurrence, continued investigation/analysis of this event will likely continue for years.”

Deon Jones was arrested in rough, guns-drawn fashion because he was black and behind the wheel of a car from Aurora that was parked in Denver, where local cops thought it didn’t belong, according to a new lawsuit. Attorney David Lane, who represents Jones in the case, argues that this alleged example of racial profiling, captured on police body-camera video on view below, remains the Denver Police Department’s policy and practice.

Spring is pothole season in Colorado, with the rainy weather much of the state has experienced over the past few days further exacerbating the vehicle-abusing phenomenon. And while any roadway is susceptible to hosting potholes, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Transportation says one area in the system is consistently the worst.

The chair of Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board, empowered by Mayor Michael Hancock to make recommendations about law enforcement use-of-force incidents and disciplinary decisions, is critical of the mild suspensions given to deputies over the November 2015 jail death of Michael Marshall. Likewise, she’s frustrated that Executive Director of Safety Stephanie O’Malley, whose office dispensed what critics see as wrist slaps in the case, declined to discuss the situation at a recent board meeting.

As the 2016-17 ski season winds down, Colorado resorts have been linked to fourteen fatalities, the most in five years. And according to Dan Gregorie of the SnowSport Safety Foundation, ski areas here and throughout the country are hiding risks by failing to provide any data about injuries and casualties, as well as by refusing to publish their safety plans.

Four former dancers at Shotgun Willie’s have filed a class-action lawsuit against the iconic Denver strip club, alleging that they were ripped off by way of an illegal system that charged them to perform and forced them to help cover other employees’ earnings out of tips they received. The complaint’s charges mirror those outlined in a March lawsuit filed against the company that owns five other exotic-dance venues in the Mile High City, including the Diamond Cabaret.

The Denver Post plans to move its main newsroom out of its iconic Denver address, at 101 West Colfax, to the newspaper’s printing facility, in Adams County at the intersection of 58th and Washington.