About Eleni Constant

Eleni I. Constant's legal practice focuses on personal injury and wrongful death, product liability, class action, and multidistrict litigation. She served as an essential team member in major cases including the Champlain Towers South Collapse Litigation and the Allergan BIOCELL Textured Breast Implant Products Liability Litigation. Before law school, she worked as an educator for 10 years at St. Stephen's Episcopal Day School in Coconut Grove, Florida, and she remains actively involved with St. Thomas Episcopal School and St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Miami.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Colson Hicks Eidson

These results are credited to Colson Hicks Eidson. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

The families of 98 people killed in the June 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, recovered over $1 billion through a class settlement run by a court-appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, with final approval reached in under a year.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Miami, FL · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$440 millionVerdict

A Miami federal court entered a roughly $440 million judgment against Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, and MSC for using port terminals Cuba confiscated in 1960, a result the Supreme Court reinstated by a vote of 8 to 1 in 2026.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (Miami) · 2022Read the full story →
$100 millionSettlement

Colson Hicks Eidson served as co-counsel to a class of Jewish families and helped reach a roughly $100 million settlement with Service Corporation International after workers at two South Florida Menorah Gardens cemeteries buried people in the wrong graves and discarded scattered remains.

Broward/Palm Beach County Circuit Court, FL · 2003Class ActionsRead the full story →
$65.1 millionVerdictLargest of 2005

A Miami-Dade jury found Eller Media liable for the 1998 electrocution of a 12-year-old boy at a bus shelter wired by unlicensed electricians and awarded $65.1 million.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court, FL · 2005Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$60.9 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2005 · #2

A federal judge found the Navy's Jacksonville hospital liable for the brain injury of a baby born in distress and entered a $60.9 million award, then the largest Federal Tort Claims Act recovery in the country, before part of it was cut on appeal.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · 2005Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Miami School of Law
Juris Doctor (cum laude)
University of Florida
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida

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$1.02 billion · Champlain Towers Collapse: $1.021 Billion for 98 Victims in Under a Year
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.