Richard W. Krieg

Knoxville Office
One Centre Square, Fifth Floor
620 Market Street
Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
Telephone (865) 546-4646
FAax (865) 523-6529

dkrieg@lewisking.com

Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rated

Education
University of Tennessee, B.S., 1968; J.D., 1972

Bar Admission
1972 Tennessee

Practice Area
Litigation

Richard W. Krieg is a shareholder in Lewis King and his litigation work includes several hundred trials and jury verdicts in the areas of transportation law, employment law, product liability, insurance defense, automobile cases, workers' compensation, premises liability, and general tort defense. Other defense work has been in the area of medical negligence defending physicians, dentists, optometrists, health care institutions, and providers of home health care services. Experience in the employment field includes trials involving retaliatory discharge, age discrimination, and sexual harassment in both state and federal jurisdictions. Additional jury experience includes defense of personal injury claims involving such activities as amusement rides, snow skiing, and ice skating.

Recent trial work has concentrated in the area of transportation law. Many of these cases involve catastrophic injuries with claims for compensatory and punitive damages. Settlements of these cases frequently involve complicated structured settlements. While a number of these cases involved day-to-day lead attorney activity, the complexity of the cases required management responsibilities to see that they were handled in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

For the past three years Mr. Krieg has been lead defense counsel in six environmental class action cases.  This has become a major area of his practice in addition to the transportation and personal injury work he does on a regular basis.

Mr. Krieg received his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Tennessee in 1968 and 1972, respectively. While in law school he was twice elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, where he served two terms before starting his full-time legal career; he has held a variety of national positions with the American Cancer Society; is a former member of the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority, serving for 21 years and 6 years as Chairman; and he is a former member of the East Tennessee Discovery Center Board of Trustees.

Mr. Krieg was recognized in 2007, 2008 and 2009 as Knoxville’s top Insurance/Civil Litigation Insurance lawyer in peer voted polls of the Knoxville Bar conducted by Knoxville’s City View magazine.