At Berman & Simmons, we are dedicated to helping people recover as fully as possible from serious injuries.

The Maine personal injury lawyers at Berman & Simmons are dedicated to helping people receive the compensation they deserve in personal injury, medical malpractice and other serious injury cases. We work hard every day to deserve our reputation as “the best plaintiffs' personal injury and medical malpractice firm in Maine.”

We understand that when you are seriously injured, you face a combination of medical, financial, and legal challenges. Our commitment is to support you and to maximize your recovery, putting you in the strongest position to win either by settlement or, if necessary, by jury verdict. Our clients have been awarded many of Maine's highest verdicts and settlements and our attorneys are consistently recognized throughout the State as being among the very best.

Let us help you. Call 207-784-3576 for a free consultation.

Contact Us

Get in Touch

Call for a free consultation. You pay nothing unless we win.

Contact Us

Berman Simmons Portland Office

We have the expertise, resources, and experience to handle any type of complex trial matter.

Our trial attorneys are widely recognized as the best in Maine and among the best in the U.S.

Important Cases

We’ve won many of the largest jury verdicts and settlements ever obtained in Maine.

The road to a $22.5 million verdict

We’ve been protecting the rights of injured Mainers for more than 100 years.

News
Law Articles
Important Cases

News

Jury orders Bangor hospital and doctor to pay $2M in medical malpractice case

Case Update, March 2019 — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the original $2 million jury award to Robbie Nason following an appeal by the defendants Eastern Maine Medical Center (now known as...

Berman & Simmons Attorney Susan Faunce Appointed to the Local Rules Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Berman and Simmons attorney Susan Faunce has been appointed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine to serve on the Local Rules Advisory Committee, effective...

Law Articles

All Law Articles

Dov Saks, lawyer at Berman & Simmons

Maximizing Jones Act Recovery for Maine’s Injured Maritime Workers

As Mainers, we are fortunate to live in the state with the third-longest coastline in the continental U.S., trailing only Florida and California. This offers many the opportunity to work at sea in fishing, maritime construction, shipping, oil,...

Michael T. Bigos, trial lawyer and partner at Berman & Simmons

Justice Achieved and Fire Safety Improved

In the middle of a September night, a fire ripped through an apartment building at 35 Main Street in downtown Biddeford, Maine. Michael Moore, 23, and his best friend and roommate James Ford, 21, were trapped in their attic apartment unit. By...

Important Cases

All Important Cases

$1.785M verdict in Medical Malpractice case

Maine Superior Court. Bangor, ME. $1.785 million jury verdict against a hospital and a primary care physician, on behalf of a 71-year-old man who suffered bacterial infection in his heart after a failure of his...

$344,000 verdict in Breach of Contract case.

Belfast, Waldo County, Maine. In this Breach of Contract lawsuit, defendant hospital terminated plaintiff doctor's contract claiming nonperformance by plaintiff. Defendant had recruited plaintiff from California to work as an...

Copyright 2019

The information you obtain at this site is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice. Providing information or communicating with Berman & Simmons through our website is not intended to create, and does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship.