Richard A. Waltz

Richard “Dick” Waltz joined Montgomery | Amatuzio in 2025 in an Of Counsel capacity, bringing forty-five years of practice experience in Colorado.

Richard graduated from “The” Ohio State University in 1969. He was honorably discharged from the United States Army in 1971 after two years of active duty. In 1974, he graduated from the University of Toledo School of Law, where he was a research editor on the University of Toledo Law Review.

From 1974 to 1981, Richard’s Ohio practice included representing Ohio National Guardsmen in personal injury litigation arising from the Kent State University shooting. He participated in the 15-week jury trial in Cleveland in 1975 and co-authored the defendants’ brief in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Later, as an Assistant Attorney General of Ohio and Chief Prosecutor for Medicaid Fraud, as well as President of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units, he supervised the prosecution of nursing home abuse, a statewide grand jury investigation, and criminal and civil prosecutions of Medicaid fraud and abuse.

Richard has personally tried over 100 jury trials involving significant injuries, including claims for substantial economic, non-economic, and disability damages arising from paraplegia, quadriplegia, severe traumatic brain injuries, wrongful death, and other serious orthopedic injuries. He has defended hundreds of complex litigation matters, including product liability, public entity defense, intellectual property, premises liability, professional malpractice, and construction defect claims. His experience also extends to complex commercial and contract litigation, including asbestos abatement cases tried to verdict.

Richard defended two of the largest nursing home negligence cases ever filed in Colorado, involving more than twenty patients. He served as lead counsel in wildfire litigation against a Colorado railroad, where claims in federal and state court approached $100 million. He also has extensive experience litigating insurance coverage, declaratory actions, and bad faith matters and has testified as an expert in such cases.

Richard has authored briefs and argued numerous appellate matters in Colorado’s state and federal courts. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer in Colorado and has held a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating continuously since 1994. For over a decade, a major commercial insurance carrier designated him as its sole catastrophic injury defense attorney in Colorado.

Richard is a member of the Colorado and Denver Bar Associations and the Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, and was a member of the Defense Research Institute and a member of the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance, where he was a Certified Litigation Management Professional (CLMP).

• Appellate

• Bad Faith

• Construction

• Governmental Immunity

• Insurance Coverage

• Insurance Defense

• Personal Injury

• Premises Liability

• Products Liability

• Professional Liability

• State of Colorado

• State of Ohio (Inactive)

• Supreme Court of the United States

• United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Inactive)

• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

• United States District Court, District of Colorado

• United States District Court, District of Ohio (Inactive)

University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio, J.D., 1974

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, B.A., 1969

• Colorado Bar Association

• Colorado Defense Lawyers Association 

• Denver Bar Association 

• Cox v. Sage Hosp. Res., LLC, 413 P.3d 302 (Colo. App. 2017)

• Westin Operator, LLC v. Groh, 2015 CO 25, 347 P.3d 606 (Colo. 2015)

• Mid-Century Ins. Co. v. InsulVail, LLC, 592 F. App’x 677 (10th Cir. 2014)

• Phathong v. Tesco Corp. (U.S.), 557 F. App’x 821 (10th Cir. 2014)

• Groh v. Westin Operator, LLC, 352 P.3d 472 (Colo. App. 2013)

• J.C. v. Dungarvin Colorado, LLC, 252 P.3d 41 (Colo. App. 2010)

• Sewell v. Great N. Ins. Co., 535 F.3d 1166 (10th Cir. 2008)

• Hoyal v. Pioneer Sand Co., 188 P.3d 716 (Colo. 2008)

• U.S. Brass Corp. v. Dormont Mfg. Co., 242 F. App’x 575 (10th Cir. 2007)

• Jahn ex rel. Jahn v. ORCR, Inc., 92 P.3d 984 (Colo. 2004)

• Bertrand v. Bd. of Cnty. Comm’rs of Park Cnty., 872 P.2d 223 (Colo. 1994)

• Bertrand v. Bd. of Cnty. Comm’rs of Park Cnty., 857 P.2d 477 (Colo. App. 1992)

• Garcia v. Est. of Wilkinson, 800 P.2d 1380 (Colo. App. 1990)

• Bd. of Cnty. Comm’rs of Cnty. of La Plata v. Moreland, 764 P.2d 812 (Colo. 1988)

• Union Ins. Co. v. RCA Corp., 724 P.2d 80 (Colo. App. 1986)

• Moreland v. Bd. of Cnty. Comm’rs of La Plata Cnty., 725 P.2d 1 (Colo. App. 1985)

• Krause v. Rhodes, 535 F. Supp. 338 (N.D. Ohio 1979), aff'd, 671 F.2d 212 (6th Cir. 1982)

• Krause v. Rhodes, 570 F.2d 563 (6th Cir. 1977)