About James Craig
James Craig joined Fieger Law in 2011 and has over 25 years of experience in plaintiff personal injury law and medical malpractice. James worked full-time as a law clerk for a medical malpractice firm while attending Detroit College of Law at night. After passing the Bar in 1995, James was hired by a busy personal injury law firm where he specialized in automobile negligence, premises liability, and medical malpractice. Since he became an attorney, James has worked exclusively for injured persons.
In addition to defending the rights of the injured, James has handled criminal appointments and civil appeals and serves as a case evaluator in Oakland and Wayne counties. James is admitted to practice in all Michigan courtrooms and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. James was recently selected as a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers, an organization comprised of the "premier trial lawyers from each state in the nation who meet stringent qualifications as civil plaintiff trial lawyers."
Proven verdicts and settlements at Fieger, Fieger, Kenney & Harrington, P.C.
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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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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