Personal Injury Attorneys in Colorado

A 26-year class action brought by thousands of property owners near Colorado's Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant resulted in a $375 million settlement against Rockwell International and Dow Chemical in 2016, with Paul DeMarco of MSD serving as co-counsel from the litigation's earliest years.

A Garfield County jury returned a $205 million verdict against Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park and ride manufacturer Soaring Eagle after finding that operators launched the Haunted Mine Drop with a six-year-old girl sitting on top of an unsecured seatbelt, overriding a warning alarm that should have stopped the ride.

A Denver jury awarded $67,349,380 in July 2024 after a seven-month-old suffered permanent brain damage when a cardiothoracic surgeon accidentally tied off the infant's aorta during open-heart surgery and the perfusionists failed to detect the resulting loss of blood flow for more than seven hours.

A seven-month-old boy underwent open-heart surgery at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver in May 2019 to close a hole between the chambers of his heart. The surgeon mistakenly tied off the descending aorta, and for more than seven hours the perfusion team and the rest of the surgical team failed to recognize that the lower half of his body was not getting oxygenated blood. Dying tissue let a common mold, aspergillus, enter his bloodstream and seed in his brain, leaving him permanently brain damaged. After his parents settled with the hospital and the physicians, a Denver jury in July 2024 found the perfusion contractor Comprehensive Care Services vicariously liable for its two perfusionists and returned a $67,349,380.53 verdict. The trial court entered judgment for the full amount, and the company's appeal to the Colorado Court of Appeals was argued in June 2026.