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About Tim Garvey

Tim Garvey is a Denver personal injury attorney at Dormer Harpring Denver Personal Injury Lawyers, specializing in insurance bad faith, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death cases. He has more than 15 years of experience and has recovered millions in wrongly withheld insurance benefits.

Garvey's notable verdicts include $8.26 million in Johnson v. KGPCo (2025) for an e-scooter crash brain injury, $4 million in Lieberenz v. Board of County Commissioners (2025), $2.5 million settlement in Tibbits v. Jasion (2024) for a five-car pileup, and $4.8 million in Casper v. Guarantee Trust Life Insurance (2014) for a cancer claim. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers (2026), National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyer (2021-present), Colorado Super Lawyers (2021-present), 5280 Magazine Top Lawyer (2023), and ASLA Top 40 Under 40 (2015).

Garvey earned his Juris Doctor in 2010 from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (top 25 percent of class) and his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Practice areas

Education

Metropolitan State University of Denver
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Colorado
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (Board Member)
American Association for Justice
Faculty of Federal Advocates
Plaintiffs' Employment Lawyers Association
Colorado Bar Association
Denver Bar Association
Arapahoe County Bar Association

Awards & recognition

Best Lawyers (2026)
National Trial Lawyers Top 100 (2021-present)
Colorado Super Lawyers (2021-present)
5280 Top Lawyer (2023)
Martindale Client Champion Gold (2023-present)
AVVO 10.0
ASLA Top 40 Under 40 (2015)

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$18.8 million · A Denver Jury's $18.8 Million Verdict for a Disabled Passenger Paralyzed in a Rear-End Crash
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$30 million · Federal Jury Awards Oilfield Worker $30 Million After a Frac Tank Explosion Took His Leg
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$5.3 million · $5.3 Million Verdict After Homeowner Abandons Ladder, Fracturing Worker's Spine