About Nick Fogel
Nick D. Fogel is the practice group leader of Burg Simpson's workers' compensation department, which has achieved Tier 1 status by U.S. News and World Report. His practice is devoted to those injured on the job, with a particular focus on law enforcement, firefighters, and first responders who sustain injuries in the line of duty. He has also handled medical retirement claims through the Fire Police Pension Association.
In 2017, he assisted in the passage of HB 1229, which changed the legal standard to allow admission of workers' compensation benefits for first responders related to on-duty PTSD. In 2016, he was named Outstanding Claimant Attorney of the Year by the Professionals in Workers Compensation. He was also selected in 2010 by Law Week Colorado as one of Colorado's Up-and-Coming Lawyers.
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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