About Craig Nuss
Craig S. Nuss is the co-practice group leader of the Construction Defects department at Burg Simpson, which has achieved Tier 1 status by U.S. News and World Report. A Colorado native born in Brush in 1960, he obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1982 and graduated from the University of Denver College of Law in 1988. He began his career at a large Denver insurance defense firm focusing on construction defect and personal injury claims and has since devoted his career to representing homeowners and homeowner associations in construction defect cases. In the past three decades he has handled more than 70 civil jury trials in Colorado state and federal courts. He holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating, is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, has been named a Colorado Super Lawyer every year since 2007, and is recognized by Best Lawyers in America and the National Trial Lawyers Top 100.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine
These results are credited to Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
A Sears technician miswired Jacqueline Gebert's electric stove in January 2019, and she was electrocuted while lifting a pan. An Arapahoe County jury found Sears negligent and awarded $2,700,000, made up of $2,000,000 in noneconomic damages and $700,000 for physical impairment. The court cut the noneconomic part to the $468,010 statutory limit, so $1,168,010 stood. The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed in 2023 and upheld the cap against a Seventh Amendment challenge.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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