Peter Burg

Peter W. Burg is a senior shareholder at Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine in Englewood, Colorado. He represents people with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries and handles catastrophic injury claims arising from defective products, dangerous drugs and medical devices, motor vehicle and trucking crashes, ski accidents and construction defects.

Burg was court-appointed co-chair of the plaintiffs’ steering and executive committees in the gadolinium-based contrast agents MDL and served on plaintiffs’ steering committees in the Bextra and Celebrex MDL and the Wright hip system cases. He obtained a $3.25 million jury award against Hertz for a client hurt in a collision with a Hertz employee. He chairs the American Association for Justice’s Gadolinium Litigation Group.

He earned his law degree at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he teaches as an adjunct professor, and was admitted in Colorado in 1980. He is a past chair of Craig Hospital’s operating board and has served with the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado. He was named Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year in Denver for mass tort litigation in 2014.