About Geoffrey Fieger
Geoffrey Fieger is a veteran of the legal battlefield. In his practice of over 45 years, he won more million-dollar verdicts and settlements than any other attorney in the country. He's the driving force who built Fieger Law into one of the most respected Law Firms in America. His command of the law, both as a trial litigator and as a scholar, made him one of the most sought-after attorneys in the country.
Though he always practiced from his firm's home in Southfield, Michigan, he is known all over the world for his charismatic trial presence and refusal to back down from the battles that matter. Geoffrey's legal skills have been acknowledged by some of the biggest institutions in America and media networks throughout the country. The Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University named The Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute in his honor.
He was repeatedly featured on MSNBC, CNN, Fox, and various other networks to provide legal insight and commentary throughout his career. He even had his own program on CBS radio titled Fieger Time and was featured on Fox's live court program Power of Attorney . Geoffrey was also frequently in the news as a subject matter expert, as he was often called upon to represent high-profile cases on behalf of those facing impossible odds.
Proven verdicts and settlements
After spinal surgery at the Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan left a 10-year-old girl partially paralyzed and permanently incontinent, and her surgeon took two vacations before the hardware came out, a Wayne County jury awarded $135 million.
Geoffrey Fieger and Jack Beam won the largest birth-injury verdict in Cook County history against the University of Chicago Medical Center, after a mother in fetal distress was left without an obstetrician for hours before an emergency cesarean.
An Oakland County jury awarded $144.5 million after a delayed cesarean left a Macomb Township girl with a permanent brain injury, a verdict the Michigan Court of Appeals later upheld before it was reduced to roughly $42 million.
A Wayne County jury found the Detroit Medical Center liable for the death of 26-year-old Terrea Holly, whose pulmonary embolism was treated as a virus and sent home from the emergency room.
An Oakland County jury found Warner Bros. and The Jenny Jones Show liable for the wrongful death of Scott Amedure and assessed $25 million, an award the Michigan Court of Appeals later reversed.
A 7-year-old girl asleep on a couch with her grandmother was fatally shot in the head during a May 2010 Detroit police raid. Two criminal trials of the officer ended in hung juries and the charge was later dismissed. In April 2019, days before the civil trial was to begin, the City of Detroit settled the family's lawsuit for $8.25 million.
Geoffrey Fieger won an $8 million Wayne County wrongful death verdict against the Northville Moose Lodge and Leonard's Syrups after an unvented carbon dioxide soda system asphyxiated volunteer Mary Katherine Simpson.
Jacqueline Nichols was killed on July 3, 2014, when a Michigan State Police cruiser pursuing a driver for a seatbelt violation ran a blinking red light and broadsided the car she was riding in. Her family sued the State Police. In October 2015 the state agreed to pay $7.7 million to settle the case, and the State Senate voted 30 to 5 to authorize the spending needed to fund it.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.