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.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Dormer Harpring Denver Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Dormer Harpring Denver Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$4 millionVerdictTop 20 in Colorado · #20

A federal jury returned a $4 million verdict against Saguache County Jail officials after finding that staff ignored repeated suicidal statements made by 27-year-old Jackson Maes before his death in November 2019.

U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, Denver · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$1.18 million

Rick Hartkopp, a construction site superintendent, was hurt in a February 2019 crash on I-25 caused by an uninsured driver and sued his own insurer, State Farm, over the uninsured motorist benefits it would not pay. After a four-day trial in June 2023, a federal jury in Denver set his damages at $2.4 million. Judge Robert E. Blackburn entered final judgment against both State Farm defendants for $1,180,053.17 in September 2023, and no appeal followed.

U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, Denver · 2023Car AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Denver firms

Leventhal Puga Braley
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$67.35 Million Colorado Record for Infant Brain-Damaged When Surgeon Tied Off Aorta in Heart Surgery
Bachus & Schanker, Personal Injury Lawyers
Bachus & Schanker, Personal Injury Lawyers
$27.6 Million Verdict for Newborn Whose E. Coli Sepsis Went Untreated at North Colorado Medical Center
Zaner Law Personal Injury and Car Accident Attorneys
Zaner Law Personal Injury and Car Accident Attorneys
$16 Million Verdict for Electrocuted Flooring Worker, Colorado's Largest Premises Liability Award
Chod Law, LLC
Chod Law, LLC
$9.3 million · Jury Awards Lincoln Railcar Repairer $9.3 Million After BNSF Crane Accident Left Him With Spine Injuries
The Wilhite Law Firm
The Wilhite Law Firm
$4.51 Million Verdict After Homeowner Abandons Ladder, Fracturing Worker's Spine

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.