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McDermott & McDermott, LLP
Attorneys at Law Our Firm... Attorneys at McDermott & McDermott have successfully represented victims against insurance companies and large corporations not only in Colorado, but nationwide. Members and past members have been and continue to be active in the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice. While also representing victims in routine cases such as automobile accidents, slip and falls, and insurance disputes, McDermott & McDermott focuses on complex tort cases with severe injuries, extraordinary damages, and difficult legal and factual issues. Sean McDermott devotes a significant amount of his practice to defending the criminally accused. Practice Areas... Our cases generally fall within these practice areas: · Defective Products
· Medical Malpractice
· Motor Vehicle Accidents
· Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith
· Legal Malpractice
· Catastrophic Injury or Death
· Pharmaceutical Injuries
· Criminal Defense
Practice Highlights... - As part of an alliance of Denver lawyers, Jerry McDermott played a major role in multi-state litigation in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, North Dakota and Iowa over the misconduct of a midwest investment brokerage firm in the marketing and monitoring of annuities which culminated in a settlement in excess of $30 million after successful trials in Colorado, Washington and Iowa.
- Willam J. Hansen has successfully prosecuted cases involving Aim N Flame® utility lighters distributed by Scripto-Tokai Corporation. The non-child-resistant "Aim-N-Flame" lighters caused catistrophic burn injuries injury to small children. The firm also participated in the Consumer Product Safety Commission's ultimate rule-making which now requires child-resistance of lighters such as the "Aim-N-Flame". An example is Bartholic v. Scripto-Tokai Corp, 140 F. Supp. 2d 1098 (D. Colo. 2000).
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A Wheeling, West Virginia man and his family represented by Jerry McDermott and George McLaughlin received a jury verdict of $4.75 million as a result of neurosurgical malpractice. It was the first medical malpractice verdict in favor of a plaintiff in that county in almost five years.
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McDermott & McDermott excels in prosecuting medical malpractice cases such as misdiagnosis of cancer, Group B Strep, meningitis, heart attacks, and catastrophic birth injuries from negligent obstetric or perinatal care.
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In October, 2001, the law firm was primary counsel in concluding a settlement in excess of $9.6 million on behalf of five people injured in a 1996 natural gas explosion at a commercial building in Denver due to the failure to cap a gas line.
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Jerry McDermott and Bill Hansen were primary counsel in an aviation case in which seven people were killed in the crash of a corporate jet on approach to the airport in Billings, Montana due to pilot error in flying into the wake turbulence of a Boeing 757 preceding it.
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Jerry McDermott and Bill Hansen represented approximately 250 doctors in state and federal lawsuits claiming bad faith, breach of contract and misrepresentation in a medical malpractice insurer's misconduct in leaving the state during the so-called malpractice crisis of 1986. Extremely novel issues of law were resolved in landmark appellate rulings in Ballow v. Phico Ins. Co., 841 P.2d 344 (Colo. App. 1992), reversed, 875 P.2d 1354 (Colo. 1993), remanded 878 P.2d 672 (Colo. 1994).
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The attorneys have handled a number of claims by professionals against insurance companies over their refusal to pay disability insurance benefits after years of collecting expensive premiums.
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Jerry McDermott and Bill Hansen concluded a number of settlements by a family against various defendants arising out of a two-vehicle head-on collision on I-25 north of Colorado Springs caused by a blown tire which resulted in seven deaths and three injuries.
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