About Kristin Murray-James
Attorney Kristin Murray-James brings a diversity of life and career experience to her role at Berman & Simmons. After a successful first career caring for women and families as a Certified Nurse Midwife, she pivoted to law school and then served as an Assistant District Attorney in Kennebec County, focusing on domestic violence, sex crimes, and crimes against children. Handling sexual abuse and assault claims as a member of the Berman & Simmons Sexual Abuse Survivors Practice Team is the next step in this progression. As a personal injury attorney with a background in midwifery and public service, Kristin understands the effects of trauma and builds trusting relationships with clients facing difficult, life-changing events.
Kristin grew up on Long Island and graduated from SUNY Oneonta before joining the Peace Corps and serving in Morocco. She then completed her Master of Science in Nursing at Yale University School of Nursing and practiced as a midwife for over a decade before attending the University of Maine School of Law. She is a member of the Maine State Bar Association and the Maine Trial Lawyers Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Berman & Simmons
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A federal jury in Pennsylvania awarded $25 million to Travis Sweigart after a tractor-trailer driver turned left across his path at the exit of Interstate 176, crushing Sweigart's pelvis and leaving him with injuries the treating surgeon described as unquestionably the worst pelvic fracture he had ever seen.
A jury awarded Robert Giordano $23.1 million after a Northern Light radiologist failed to report a large bony mass compressing his spinal cord, leaving him permanently paralyzed from the chest down.
A Vermont jury awarded $22.5 million, the second-largest verdict in state history at the time, to a Maine utility lineman who lost both legs below the knee after an ungrounded, defectively installed air-break switch at a Richford substation released a 5,000-degree electrical arc through his body.
Emily Mitchell went to Inland Hospital in Waterville for laparoscopic surgery to remove a benign cyst on her left ovary. The surgeon removed her bladder instead, and pathology on the excised tissue found bladder wall and no ovarian tissue at all. She now lives with a bladder rebuilt from her small intestine. A jury awarded her $15.75 million and her husband $1.25 million.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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