Recent Success

I represented the family of a man killed in a wreck with a tractor-trailer in a wrongful death claim. In the early morning, our client was leaving a casino and went through an intersection on a green light. A tractor-trailer proceeded southbound on South Broadway in St. Louis violated a red light and crashed into […]

The St. Louis area personal injury attorneys at Burger Law represented a woman who swerved to dodge a piece of playground equipment that fell from a truck. As a result of the multi-car accident, she sustained serious injuries. Burger Law was able to negotiate a settlement for the full policy limits and maximize her monetary […]

In addition to the above case, you need to be creative with finding in insurance in all auto cases. We did “creative lawyering” relating to an old crash that left our client Connie Wills severely injured. In 2010, playground equipment fell from the back of a truck that was traveling ahead of her on Highway […]

Gary represented the Macharias and settled the case for $1.435 million against three parties after extensive litigation, a mediation and further negotiation. They were injured in a Memorial Day 2013 deck collapse. They were sitting on their deck with family when the deck surprisingly collapsed beneath them. We sued the owner of the apartment, the […]

In this case, the defendants tried to shift the blame onto the tenants when the apartment complex they owned had a deck that collapsed. Gary got around their procedural maneuvering to insure that his clients got an excellent result and forced a large settlement. With results like this, defendants are always scared to go up […]

In this case, a reckless driver struck and killed a tow truck driver who was helping a stranded motorist. The experienced trial attorneys at Burger Law had to litigate against an insurance policy that denied coverage because the driver was working outside of the vehicle at the time of the collision. By arguing that the […]

Our client here was seriously injured when an emergency room did not properly treat her brain aneurysm. By providing a spinal tap, the injury could have been averted. That treatment would also have resulted in the patient being retained for observation and helped treat the rupture of her aneurysm two days later. Burger Law aggressively […]

Gary Burger settled a medical malpractice case for over $1 million. Our client, Kelly Sinn, was diagnosed with, but not properly treated for, a brain aneurysm. Kelly went to a Southern Illinois emergency room and the ER doctor diagnosed a recent brain aneurysm Kelly had as a “thunderclap” headache or the worst headache of your […]

The majority of all lawsuits filed do not go to trial–they settle. Some settle early in the litigation process, others settle the day before or the day of trial. Recently, St. Louis personal injury attorney Gary Burger has settled personal injury cases adding up to over a million dollars. These range from medical malpractice and […]

 It is estimated that between 28 and 50 % of the 1 million people who contract sepsis each year die. Many times the sepsis has gone undiagnosed for too long, and then not treated in a rapid manner with antibiotics to which the infection is sensitive. This is a very unfortunate situation which could have […]