About David TeSelle
David K. TeSelle is a nationally recognized trial lawyer licensed in Colorado and Arizona who has successfully tried numerous cases to jury verdicts in both state and federal court and in private arbitration. His high-profile successes include one of the largest personal injury verdicts in Arizona history ($58.5 million) against a body donation company that illegally sold body parts. He has achieved numerous multi-million verdicts and arbitration awards in consumer fraud, complex commercial litigation, class actions, insurance bad faith, construction defects, breach of contract, securities, and bet-your-business litigation.
He is currently lead counsel representing thousands of 'gold star' military families in New York and Washington, D.C. courts whose loved ones were killed or injured by Iranian-backed terror attacks in Iraq. He has also successfully argued high-profile cases before state and federal appellate courts across the country. He received his J.D. from Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and his B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine
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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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