About Lauren Knapp
Lauren Knapp is a trial attorney with extensive courtroom experience in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. Her civil litigation portfolio spans personal injury from automotive accidents, wrongful death, and premises liability, as well as insurance bad faith, negligence, and human trafficking. Before entering private practice, Ms. Knapp served as a Deputy District Attorney in Colorado's 18th Judicial District, prosecuting traffic offenses, misdemeanors, and felony cases.
She earned her J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she competed on the National Trial Team and became a National Champion. She has been recognized as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in 2026, a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2026, and a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40. Ms. Knapp is a member of the Colorado Bar Association, the Arapahoe County Bar Association, the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, and the National Trial Lawyers.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Dan Caplis Law
These results are credited to Dan Caplis Law. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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 Larimer County jury returned a $65 million wrongful death verdict in September 2026 for the family of Megan Arneson, a 32-year-old single mother killed on I-25 near Mead in August 2022. A semi hauling an improperly loaded excavator struck an overpass, and falling concrete came through her windshield. The jury found the driver and his employer liable after a five-day trial. Plaintiffs' counsel described it as the largest jury verdict in Larimer County history and the largest in a Colorado trucking crash case.
A Denver jury awarded $26.6 million to two adult siblings whose parents were both killed when a drowsy CWRV Transport driver rear-ended their stopped vehicle at 75 mph on a Colorado highway.
After Cincinnati Casualty told an Aurora man he owed nothing following three spinal surgeries from a multi-car crash, a Denver jury returned a verdict of more than $3 million for breach of contract and insurance bad faith.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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