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About A.J. Hernandez
A.J. Hernandez is a Litigation Attorney at Farah & Farah's Jacksonville, Florida office, where he handles plaintiff personal injury matters — including motor vehicle accidents, slip-and-fall, product liability, and wrongful death. He brings significant prior experience from both plaintiff and defense sides of litigation. At his prior firm, he tried multiple state- and federal-court cases for both plaintiffs and defendants and argued an appeal before a Florida appellate court.
Hernandez is bilingual in English and Spanish, allowing him to serve a wider range of clients across Florida and Georgia.
Hernandez earned his bachelor's degree in Political Science and Philosophy from Florida State University and his J.D. from Florida Coastal School of Law, graduating in the top 20% of his class. He received Dean's Scholar Awards, the Martha Sonnenschein Memorial Scholarship, the Best Petitioner's Brief award at the National Latino Law Student Association Moot Court Competition, and certificates in Civil Litigation and Legal Research & Writing.
He is admitted to The Florida Bar (#1020711), the State Bar of Georgia (admitted 2022), the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Northern Districts of Florida, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He is a member of the Florida Justice Association, the Jacksonville Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Farah & Farah
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A federal jury in Jacksonville found for Judith Berger, a forty-year smoker with end-stage COPD, on all claims against Philip Morris USA in September 2014. It awarded $6,250,000 in compensatory damages and $20,760,000.14 in punitive damages. The trial court set aside the fraud claims and the punitive award, but the Eleventh Circuit reinstated them in 2018 and held in 2021 that the punitive award was not unconstitutionally excessive.
A federal jury in Jacksonville found that cigarettes made by R.J. Reynolds were a legal cause of a Florida man's death from lung cancer in 1996. It awarded his widow $5.9 million in compensatory damages and assigned 27.5 percent of the fault to him, which produced a judgment of $4,277,500. In October 2014 the Eleventh Circuit reversed over the exclusion of evidence of his alcohol use and remanded for a new trial, and the case settled on undisclosed terms in January 2015 before any retrial.
A Duval County jury returned a $1.83 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in the wrongful-death claim of Kenneth Hiott, a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer; the trial court reduced the award to $730,000 based on comparative fault, and Florida's First District Court of Appeal affirmed in January 2014.
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