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About Jim Puga
Jim Puga is a nationally recognized trial lawyer focused on personal injury and medical malpractice who has secured multiple multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements. He won the largest medical malpractice jury verdict in Colorado history, $17.8 million, on behalf of a child with brain damage. A third-generation Colorado native, Jim graduated cum laude from the University of Denver and then earned his J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law on scholarship in 1989. He spent several years at a prominent corporate defense firm before dedicating his practice entirely to plaintiff-side medical malpractice and birth injury work nearly 20 years ago.
Jim holds a 10.0 Superb Avvo rating, is an honored member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and is a faculty member with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He is a past co-chair of the AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group and currently serves on its Board of Directors. Best Lawyers in America has recognized him in medical malpractice since 2007 and personal injury since 2012, and he has been a Colorado Super Lawyer since 2007.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Denver jury awarded $67,349,380 in July 2024 after a seven-month-old suffered permanent brain damage when a cardiothoracic surgeon accidentally tied off the infant's aorta during open-heart surgery and the perfusionists failed to detect the resulting loss of blood flow for more than seven hours.
A Colorado jury delivered what was then the state's largest medical malpractice verdict after a four-day-old girl suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage when hospital staff administered an incorrect prostaglandin dose before congenital heart surgery.
A federal jury awarded Jody Blatchley, former coach of New Zealand's Olympic snowboard team, $6.3 million after nurses at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center failed to recognize and report compartment syndrome for three days following his tibial surgery, leaving him with permanent foot drop and confined to a wheelchair.
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