Located in Meriden, Connecticut, Mahon, Quinn & Mahon, P.C., formerly known as Weigand, Mahon & Adelman, was founded in 1974 with the mission of serving clients in a professional, yet personal, manner. We pride ourselves in our skills, honesty, promptness, and individualized dedication to our clients. We uphold the highest standard of excellence and efficiency—in fact, we have recent been awarded an “AV” peer review rating by Martindale Hubbell—the highest level of professional skill and ethics.

I am one of three partners at Mahon, Quinn & Mahon, P.C., where I focus on Connecticut social security disability.  I also handle personal injury, workers’ compensation, and general litigation claims.  I graduated with a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from the College of the Holy Cross in 2002, and I received my law degree, summa cum laude, from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2005. While in law school, I was note and casenote editor for Quinnipiac Law Review. I also interned for United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton.

I am a member of the Connecticut Bar Association, the Connecticut Trial Lawyer Association, and the National Association of Social Security Representatives.  I was admitted to practice in the Connecticut federal courts in 2006. Before coming to Mahon, Quinn & Mahon, P.C., I worked for several years as an associate at a large litigation firm in Hartford, Connecticut.

I strongly believe in furthering the legal profession and giving back to the community.  I am a past co-chair of the litigation and workers’ compensation sections of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section.  I have also served in the past as a co-chair of a mentoring program in the Hartford Public School system and I have participated as a judge and speaker for middle school and high school mock trial competitions.  I am currently a member of the Meriden Rotary Club as well as a board member for Camp Jewell YMCA and the Meriden-Wallingford domestic violence shelter, Meriden-Wallingford Chrysalis.

I have authored several published articles, including: “Simmons v. Roper: Trying to Strike the Balance Between Strictly Obeying Supreme Court Precedent and Overruling Outmoded Concepts of Capital Punishment” in the Quinnipiac Law Review (2004); “The Advantages of ADR” in the Hartford Business Journal (2006); and “Getting Off the Hook” in the Hartford Business Journal (2007). I have also co-authored “Irreparable Harm: Dead Letter or Equitable Mainstay?” in the Connecticut Law Tribune (March 2007).  An article I wrote which is entitled, “Owner-Controlled and Contractor-Controlled Insurance Programs: An Overview of Wrap-Up Insurance and its Implications on the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Act,” is expected to be published in the fall 2011 edition of the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Quarterly.

If you do not already have a Connecticut Social Security disability lawyer and would like for me to evaluate your claim, call my toll-free number.

Colin P. Mahon, Esq.

Mahon, Quinn & Mahon, P.C.

Connecticut disability lawyers

636 Broad Street

Meriden, Connecticut 06450

888-236-6240

Social Security disability law defines “disability” as an inability “to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”

An individual is not “disabled” if drug addiction or alcoholism would “be a contributing factor material to the Commissioner’s determination that the individual is disabled.”

However, you cannot always rely on common sense to tell you who is and who is not disabled under Social Security law. Here are some examples:

Example: Lawyer

• He is 35 years old with 10 years of trial experience.
• He is not working, but he is looking for a job.
• He lost his left foot in a car accident a year ago.

Because of stump complications, he is unable to use a prosthetic device to walk one block at a reasonable pace, though he uses it to walk shorter distances, e.g., around an office or around his apartment. When he goes longer distances, he rides a motorized scooter.

He is disabled based on Step 3 of the Sequential Evaluation Process.

Example: Bookkeeper

• He has a college education.
• He is a quadriplegic with only limited use of his right hand and arm and no use whatsoever of his legs and left arm.
• He uses an arm brace to write.
• He works a few hours per day as a bookkeeper and earns, after deductions for expenses related to his impairment, about $1,050 per month on average.

Because of his earnings he is not disabled.

Example: Construction worker

• He is 48 years old.
• He has done heavy unskilled construction work since age 16.
• He has a fourth grade education and is capable of reading only rudimentary things like inventory lists and simple instructions.
• He has a “low normal” I.Q.
• He is limited to sedentary work because of a heart condition.

He is not disabled unless he has some additional limitations.

Example: Machine operator

• He is 38 years old.
• He has done medium exertion level unskilled factory work, operating a machine since he graduated from high school.
• A cardiovascular impairment limits him to sedentary work, and a permanent injury of the right hand limits him to such work not requiring bimanual dexterity.

He is probably disabled.