Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine
About the firm
Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine is a national personal injury and commercial litigation law firm founded in 1977, with offices across seven states and more than $1 billion recovered in verdicts, settlements, and judgments. The firm handles mass tort and class action cases, medical malpractice, construction defects, workers' compensation, and catastrophic personal injury matters.
Notable results
A Maricopa County jury awarded $58.5 million to families who donated deceased relatives' bodies believing they would be used for medical research, only to learn the Biological Resource Center of Arizona had dismembered and sold the remains to brokers worldwide.
A federal jury awarded Georgina Perez $55.5 million after a Sunbeam Express Crock Multi-Cooker lid blew off and caused severe burns; the court later reduced the award to roughly $9.1 million under Colorado's statutory damages cap.
A Denver jury awarded $31.8 million to the family of an 82-year-old woman killed and other residents injured when a punctured Xcel Energy gas line exploded at Heather Gardens retirement community in 2018, assigning Xcel 12% of the fault.
Burg Simpson secured a $19.48 million arbitration award for the homeowners' association of an 82-unit Aurora, Colorado townhome community after proving Century Communities built the development with widespread structural, drainage, and fire-code defects.
Burg Simpson secured a confidential settlement for the three children of Jason Varnish, 46, a New Jersey finance executive who died of positional asphyxiation after his jacket became entangled in a Blue Sky Basin chairlift at Vail in February 2020.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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