Attorney Profiles

Victor A. Bergman represents ordinary America citizens against the powerful.

If he believes your case has merit, if he is convinced your case is provable, he'll fight for you. Once he chooses you, he becomes relentlessly committed to winning your case.

Vic limits the number of cases he takes. Where other trial attorneys may handle scores or hundreds of cases at the same time, Vic files about 10 at any given time. He limits his caseload to ensure that your case receives the time, resources, and the experts it needs to deliver the results you deserve.

Vic's results speak for themselves. His peers have placed Vic on the list of "America’s Best Lawyers" every year since 1987. They picked him as one of the region's "Super Lawyers" since that designation began in 2005. He was inducted in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1998, limited to the top 1% of trial lawyers nationwide.

Vic handles every type of personal injury case, the common element being a severe injury or death.

Vic has extensive experience and success in trucking accident cases. In Disidore v. Mail Contractors of America, Inc., Unitran, Inc., Hoovestol, Inc., Holland Hitch Company and The United States, Vic won a $5 million settlement after jury selection in federal court. His client sustained a traumatic brain injury when a semi truck unexpectedly disconnected the second of two 45' trailers it was pulling on I-70. The disconnected trailer smashed into his client’s car, leaving her with permanent brain injury. The trucking company blamed the maintenance company which blamed the fifth wheel manufacturer, so Vic made claims against them all.

For 30 years Vic has had a special interest in representing children and their families in obstetrical malpractice and other birth injury cases. In court he's proven the connection between medical malpractice around the time of birth and cerebral palsy and death.

Vic obtained a verdict of $15 million in Olsen v. Humana, Inc., et al., a case arising from the mismanagement of labor and delivery by nurses and an obstetrician. He won a verdict of $12.9 million in another birth injury case, Jones v. Humana. He has favorable settlements in many other birth injury cases.

Vic's successes in personal injury law are broad and in some cases historical.

Vic was a national figure in the legal fight for women who were injured, and for the families of those killed by Toxic Shock Syndrome.  In court, Vic proved the correlation between Toxic Shock Syndrome and the use of highly absorbent tampons. Proctor & Gamble paid an undisclosed settlement to the victims and their families in these cases.

In Johnson v. Colt Industries Operating Corporation, Vic won a verdict of $2.25 million, including $1.25 million in punitive damages.  In the courtroom, Vic proved the design of the Colt Single Action Revolver, which goes back to 1873 -- "The Gun That Won The West" -- was defective and unreasonably dangerous.

In Wolfgang v. Mid-America Motorsports, Inc., R.E.D. Racing, Inc. and World of Outlaws, Inc., Vic won a $1.2 million verdict for Hall of Fame Sprint Car driver Doug Wolfgang, against a race track and a sanctioning organization, for the failure to provide adequate fire and rescue services for drivers. Wolfgang had crashed during practice and was unconscious in his car. The rescue crew was poorly trained, equipped and prepared, and as a consequence he suffered burn injuries to his lower extremity. The case had major implications for the industry.

These are just a few victories in the legal life of Vic Bergman. He has many more. You may click the links to reports on many of Vic’s cases marked below.