The Third District Court of Appeal upheld a 24.8 million dollar tobacco verdict against cigarette manufacturers. This comes nearly 8 years after the trial court found in 2002 that Defendants Philip Morris, Liggett Group, and Brown & Williamson were legally responsible for misrepresentation, fraud, civil conspiracy, and for knowingly manufacturing…
Expensive rentals and condominiums provide extensive security programs to protect residents and guests. Low income renters often don’t get the same protection as more affluent apartment dwellers. Legal protections exist for government supported properties. Though not well known by the public many requirements for safety and security are mandated by…
Just last week we received a $1,200,000 jury verdict for the widow of a lifetime cigarette smoker who died in 1993. The tobacco industry used every available appeal to delay justice for our client. Now, 76 she finally received an award for the loss of her husband on May 22,…
Earlier this month, our firm along with the the Florida Justice Association traveled to Tallahassee, FL to lobby the the Florida legislature. One proposed bill of particular interest would increase the minimum amount of automobile insurance coverage a convicted felon would be required to carry while operating a car or…
Gerson & Schwartz PA, recently obtained a six fix figure settlement against the owner and operator of an apartment complex.Our client was was the innocent victim of a violent crime. After 2 years of litigation and just minutes after closing arguments, the Defendants agreed to settle the case prior to…
Gerson & Schwartz, PA recently obtained a $240,0000 settlement for our client who was assaulted in her apartment complex. Our client, had returned home one evening and parked her vehicle in her assigned space in the parking lot area in front of her second floor condominium apartment. As she exited…
Our client expected justice – instead he got judicial error. We’re working to fix that. Back in 2001, the plaintiff, a 24-year-old man, suffered a partial hearing loss and a mild brain injury after he was beaten with a beer bottle in the parking lot of an International Drive apartment…
Gerson & Schwartz PA, along with co-counsel obtained a $2.5 million jury award for our client, who suffered severe – and permanent – injuries when the deck of a house she was visiting collapsed from under her. The house – a foreclosed Atlanta property that had been listed for sale…
It was only after our client began suffering visual disturbances and went to another doctor, an ophthalmologist,that she received the correct — and sobering — diagnosis: An MRI revealed a baseball-size tumor, called a hemangioma, growing outside her brain. While not a malignant lesion, it was large enough to compress…
A private road may only be open to certain drivers, but when it is inadequately designed and constructed, danger isn’t choosy. Our client, a 71-year-old truck driver, suffered a skull fracture — resulting in hospitalization, rehabilitation, and an enormous workman’s compensation lien — in a 2005 accident on a private…