Specialties
If you have a claim that is governed by the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), or if you are seeking benefits through Colorado's Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) disability program, let us help you get the benefits you need and deserve.
Our long-term disability insurance attorneys have decades of experience in this specific area of law. No other law firm in Colorado handles as many disability insurance claims as we do, and we have a great rate of success. We know how insurance companies operate, and we know how to hold them accountable.
History
Established in 1992.
Shawn E. McDermott is an insurance law litigator and personal injury attorney who serves Aurora, Colorado Springs, and the other areas surrounding Denver, Colorado. Shawn handles a wide variety of disputes with insurance companies involving injury, illness, and disease. He has practiced law in Denver since 1992 and has extensive experience litigating cases involving personal injury, insurance coverage and bad faith, disability law, ERISA, and workers' compensation.
Meet the Business Owner: Shawn M.
Shawn E. McDermott is a 1992 graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law.
Prior to starting his own firm in 1996, Shawn spent five years learning his trade a larger firm in downtown Denver representing individuals and insurance companies and their insureds in a variety of claims, including insurance coverage and bad faith, aviation cases, automobile crashworthiness, railroad crossing injury, professional (medical and legal) liability, products liability, skier and ski area liability, catastrophic injury and wrongful death. He now dedicates the bulk of his time and McDermott Law's resources to representing individuals against insurance companies in the areas of disability, life, health and accidental death & dismemberment claims, ERISA-governed claims for employee benefits, PERA disability retirement claims, and serious personal injury matters.
(Visit McDermott Law's website for full bio).