Top 10 Personal Injury Verdicts in Florida in 2025
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We are pleased to present to you the list of the top 10 personal injury verdicts obtained in Florida in 2025. The list is composed of various types of cases that were tried to a verdict before a state or federal jury in Florida. The curation of case results for this list were conducted in accordance with the following methodology.
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| 1 | |
| Amount: | $329,000,000.00 |
| Case: | Benavides v. Tesla Inc. |
| Type: | Car Accidents, Failure to Warn, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Negligent Misrepresentation, Pedestrian Accidents, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Wrongful Death, Brain Injury, Defective Product, Emotional Distress, Psychological Injury, Equipment Malfunction, Gross Negligence, Strict Liability, Failure to Disclose, Defective Product Design, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Bone Fracture, Spinal Injury, Two-Vehicle Accidents, Vehicular Accidents, Car v. Car Accidents, Car v. Pedestrian Accidents, Defective Auto Equipment, Neurological Injury, Survival Action, Auto Product Liability, Bodily Injury, Fatal Bodily Injury, Vehicular Death, Punitive Damages |
| Attorneys: | Brett J. Schreiber, Carmela S. Birnbaum, Srinivas Hanumadass of Singleton Schreiber LLP; Todd Poses of Poses Boumel; Douglas F. Eaton of Eaton & Wolk PL; Donald H. Slavik, David Terry of Slavik Law; Adam T. Boumel of Poses Boumel |
| 2 | |
| Amount: | $92,300,000.00 |
| Case: | Gadson v. Slaton, et al. |
| Type: | Car Accidents, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Negligence in Employment, Negligent Supervision, Personal Injury, Truck Accidents, Brain Injury, Negligent Training, Failure to Supervise, Negligent Entrustment, Impaired Driving Accidents, Vicarious Liability, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Two-Vehicle Accidents, Vehicular Accidents, Permanent Disability, Truck v. Car Accidents, Neurological Injury, Bodily Injury |
| Attorneys: | Timothy C. Felice, Paul Dozois of Felice Trial Attorneys; Andrew A. Harris of Harris Appeals, P.A. |
| 3 | |
| Amount: | $70,832,504.63 |
| Case: | Stewart v. Tampa Gen. Hosp., et al. |
| Type: | Delayed Diagnosis, Health Facility Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Malpractice, Personal Injury, Professional Malpractice, Brain Injury, Failure to Treat, Failure to Refer, Failure to Test, Paralysis Injury, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Permanent Disability, Neurological Injury, Bodily Injury, Stroke Injury |
| Attorneys: | Adam S. Hecht, Edward V. Ricci of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley PA; Andrew A. Harris, Grace M. Streicher of Harris Appeals, P.A. |
| 4 | |
| Amount: | $56,000,000.00 |
| Case: | Ruiz v. Wendy's Trucking, et al. |
| Type: | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Truck Accidents, Work Accidents, Workplace Negligence, Eye Injury, Amputation/Limb Loss, Occupational Injury, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Vehicular Accidents, Permanent Disability, Bodily Injury, Traumatic Amputation, Truck v. Worker Accidents |
| Attorneys: | Joseph Abdallah of Kanner & Pintaluga P.A. |
| 5 | |
| Amount: | $54,128,376.50 |
| Case: | Estate of Hindalong, et al. v. Escalera, et al. |
| Type: | Car Accidents, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Negligence in Employment, Personal Injury, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death, Head-on Collisions, Vicarious Liability, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Bone Fracture, Two-Vehicle Accidents, Vehicular Accidents, Truck v. Car Accidents, Survival Action, Bodily Injury, Fatal Bodily Injury, Vehicular Death |
| Attorneys: | Jonathan Brozyna, Brian K. McClain, Karighan Walker Alicea, A. Crosby Crane of Morgan & Morgan, PA |
| 6 | |
| Amount: | $50,000,000.00 |
| Case: | Saldana v. Schultz, et al. |
| Type: | Assault & Battery, Dangerous Condition, Failure to Warn, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Negligent Security, Gunshot Wound, Failure to Disclose, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Residential Premises Liability, Bodily Injury |
| Attorneys: | Joseph A. Zarzaur, Jr., Alexandra Messmore of Zarzaur Law, P.A. |
| 7 | |
| Amount: | $37,495,930.00 |
| Case: | Cooper, et al., v. Midway Water Sys., Inc. |
| Type: | Failure to Warn, Government Negligence, Personal Injury, Property Damage, Construction Defect, Emotional Distress, Psychological Injury, Commercial Litigation, Utility Negligence, Contractor Negligence |
| Attorneys: | Mitchell A. Schermer, Benjamin A. Webster, Evin Dyess Childs, Alexia Nyiri of Morgan & Morgan, PA |
| 8 | |
| Amount: | $30,533,743.00 |
| Case: | Adams, et al. v. Johnston |
| Type: | Car Accidents, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Emotional Distress, Psychological Injury, Impaired Driving Accidents, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Two-Vehicle Accidents, Vehicular Accidents, Car v. Car Accidents, Survival Action, Bodily Injury, Fatal Bodily Injury, Vehicular Death, Highway Accidents |
| Attorneys: | Dennis P. Dore, Alexander D. Nobregas, K. Todd Butler of Law Offices of Ronald E. Sholes, P.A. |
| 9 | |
| Amount: | $27,000,000.00 |
| Case: | Gerlach v. Holmes Regional, et al. |
| Type: | Delayed Diagnosis, Delayed Treatment, Health Facility Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Malpractice, Personal Injury, Professional Malpractice, Inadequate Care, Failure to Monitor, Paralysis Injury, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Spinal Injury, Permanent Disability, Neurological Injury, Post-Surgical Negligence, Bodily Injury |
| Attorneys: | Andrew F. Knopf, Jack T. Cook, John B. Morgan, Kevin Butler, Amira Cheikh-Khalil of Morgan & Morgan, PA |
| 10 | |
| Amount: | $20,000,000.00 |
| Case: | Perez v. 4 Brothers LLC |
| Type: | Assault & Battery, Dangerous Condition, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Negligent Security, Gunshot Wound, Nonfatal Bodily Injury, Retail Premises Liability, Bodily Injury |
| Attorneys: | Carlos Jordi, Kevin D. Mulet of Rubenstein Law, PA |
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