Kevin Cheney has heard the question enough times to know it is never really about money. A client sitting across from him — or on the other end of a phone call from a hospital room — is not asking about legal strategy. They are asking whether their life is going to be okay. Whether the medical bills will stop arriving. Whether they will be able to go back to work. Whether someone is actually on their side against an insurance company that has already assigned an adjuster to minimize what they are owed. Cheney is the managing partner of CGH Injury Lawyers — the Denver-based personal injury firm he built alongside Tim Galluzzi and Travis Howard — and the firm's founding philosophy, stated plainly on its website and practiced daily in its offices, is that the law is about more than money. It is about helping people rebuild their lives. That is not a tagline. It is the reason the firm exists.
CGH Injury Lawyers has built a reputation in Denver and across Colorado that is difficult to manufacture through marketing alone: Super Lawyers recognition for Cheney and Director of Pre-Litigation Nicole Greene, Best of Denver and Best of Colorado honors, Top 50 Verdicts in Colorado for 2023, and a track record of results that includes a $3 million car crash settlement, multiple seven-figure verdicts, and a string of outcomes that reflect what happens when a firm combines genuine legal skill with a refusal to settle for less than a client deserves. The firm handles the full range of personal injury matters — car accidents, truck collisions, motorcycle crashes, rideshare injuries, ski accidents, slip and fall cases, premises liability, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury — and it does so on a contingency fee basis, meaning clients pay nothing unless the firm wins.
For anyone in Denver who has been injured and is trying to understand what it actually means to have the right legal representation on their side, here is a closer look at how the team at CGH approaches that work — and what every injured person in Colorado needs to understand before making any decision about their case.
What Personal Injury Representation Actually Requires — And Why the First Decisions Matter Most
"Winning your case isn't just about legal motions," Cheney explains. "It's about securing the resources you need to rebuild your life. Those are different goals, and a firm that only focuses on the first one is not fully serving its client."
That distinction — between winning a legal proceeding and actually solving a client's problem — is at the core of how CGH Injury Lawyers operates. The problems that keep injured people up at night are not abstract. They are medical bills that arrive before the body has healed. They are paychecks that stopped coming the week of the accident. They are the gap between what an insurance company offers and what it actually costs to recover from a serious injury. A personal injury attorney who understands those problems — not just as legal categories but as the lived reality of the person sitting across the table — approaches the work differently than one who is processing files.
Tim Galluzzi, the firm's Director of Litigation, and Travis Howard bring that same orientation to the courtroom. The firm's Top 50 Verdicts recognition in Colorado for 2023, along with Top 20 Verdicts in both 2021 and 2022, reflects a litigation track record that insurance defense attorneys take seriously. That matters, because the value of a personal injury claim is shaped in part by whether the opposing side believes the firm will actually try the case. A firm with a demonstrated willingness to take cases to verdict — and a track record of winning them — negotiates from a fundamentally different position than one that settles every matter before trial.
Nicole Greene, the firm's Director of Pre-Litigation, oversees the critical early phase of every case: the period between the injury and any formal legal proceedings, when evidence is gathered, medical treatment is documented, and the foundation of the claim is built. This phase is where cases are often won or lost before a single motion is filed, and having an attorney of Greene's caliber — a Super Lawyers honoree in her own right — leading that process reflects the firm's commitment to treating every stage of a case as consequential, not just the courtroom.
The firm's contingency fee structure is not incidental to its mission. It is an expression of it. By taking cases on a no-win, no-fee basis, CGH Injury Lawyers removes the financial barrier that prevents many injured people from accessing the quality of representation they need. The insurance company on the other side of a claim has retained counsel and has resources to defend its position. A contingency fee arrangement means the injured person has a firm with equivalent skill and motivation standing behind them — without having to pay a retainer that many people simply cannot afford in the aftermath of a serious accident.
What Denver Residents Need to Know When They've Been Injured
Colorado's personal injury landscape has specific characteristics that shape how claims are handled, and understanding them matters before a single conversation with an insurance adjuster takes place. Colorado follows a modified comparative negligence rule, which means that an injured person's compensation can be reduced — or eliminated entirely — based on their assigned percentage of fault. Insurance adjusters are trained to identify and amplify any evidence of shared fault in the early stages of a claim, and statements made before an attorney is involved can become part of that calculation in ways that are difficult to undo.
The statute of limitations for most personal injury claims in Colorado is three years from the date of injury — but that deadline is not the only time constraint that matters. Evidence degrades. Witnesses become harder to locate. Surveillance footage from accident scenes is routinely overwritten within days or weeks. The sooner an attorney is involved, the better positioned the firm is to preserve the evidence that supports the claim and prevent the opposing side from controlling the narrative before the client has legal representation.
CGH Injury Lawyers operates statewide and removes the geographic barrier that can otherwise delay representation. The firm travels to hospitals and homes to meet clients who cannot come to the office, and offers virtual consultations for those who need immediate guidance before they are physically able to sit across a table from an attorney. That accessibility reflects a practical understanding of what it means to be seriously injured: the last thing a person in a hospital bed should have to worry about is how to get to a law office.
Denver's roads and highways present a particular injury profile that the firm knows well. Interstate 25, I-70, and the city's dense urban grid generate a consistent volume of serious car and truck accidents. The city's proximity to ski resorts along the Front Range adds a category of injury — ski accidents, lift incidents, and mountain road collisions — that requires specialized knowledge of Colorado's recreational liability statutes. The firm's experience across all of these case types means that clients are not explaining the basics of their situation to an attorney who is encountering it for the first time.
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What to Look for When You Need a Personal Injury Attorney in Denver
Choosing a personal injury attorney when you are in the middle of a medical and financial crisis is one of the hardest versions of a consequential decision. A few things are worth prioritizing when time is short and the stakes are high.
Ask about the firm's trial record. The single most important piece of leverage in a personal injury negotiation is the credibility of the threat to take the case to trial. A firm that rarely or never tries cases is a firm that insurance companies know will eventually settle, and that knowledge shapes every offer they make. Ask how many cases the firm has taken to verdict, and ask about the outcomes. CGH Injury Lawyers' Top 20 Verdicts recognition in consecutive years — alongside a $2.5 million car crash verdict and multiple seven-figure results — is the kind of track record that changes the negotiating dynamic before a word is spoken.
Ask who will actually be handling your case. At some large personal injury firms, the attorney you meet at the initial consultation is not the attorney who manages your file. Understanding who is responsible for your case day to day — and what their experience level is — is a reasonable question that any reputable firm should answer directly. At CGH, the named partners and directors are actively involved in the cases the firm takes on, not managing from a distance while less experienced staff handles the work.
Ask about communication. An injured person dealing with medical treatment, lost income, and an uncertain recovery does not need a law firm that is difficult to reach. The client testimonials that CGH Injury Lawyers has earned consistently highlight honesty, transparency, and responsiveness — qualities that are not universal in personal injury practice and that matter enormously to a client who needs to understand what is happening with their case at every stage.
Finally, ask about the contingency fee structure and what it covers. Understand what percentage the firm takes, what costs are deducted from the recovery, and under what circumstances — if any — the client could owe money even if the case does not resolve favorably. A firm that is transparent about its fee structure before the engagement begins is one that is treating the client as a partner in the outcome rather than a source of revenue.
The Firm That Treats Your Case Like It Matters
Kevin Cheney, Tim Galluzzi, Travis Howard, Nicole Greene, and Robert Lawrence did not build CGH Injury Lawyers by processing claims efficiently. They built it by taking the position that every injured person deserves the same quality of advocacy that the insurance industry deploys to protect its own interests — and by developing the legal skill, the trial record, and the client-first culture to back that position up. The awards and verdicts are evidence of the legal capability. The client testimonials — the ones that describe a firm that is ethical, responsive, and genuinely invested in the outcome — are evidence of something harder to quantify and more important to the person who needs it.
The firm's core conviction has not changed since it was founded: that practicing law is about helping people, and that winning a case means securing the resources a client needs to actually rebuild their life — not just closing a file. For Denver residents who have been injured and are trying to figure out where to turn, that conviction is worth understanding before they make any decision about who represents them.
The consultation is free. The firm works on contingency. And the conversation starts on the injured person's terms — at the office, at the hospital, at home, or on a screen. For anyone in Denver who has been hurt and needs to know their options, that is where it begins.