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About Brian Flaherty
Brian Martin Flaherty is among the most senior attorneys at Farah & Farah's Jacksonville, Florida office, having been with the firm since its early growth from a small operation into one of the largest law firms in the Southeast. He focuses on motor vehicle and commercial trucking collisions and has substantial courtroom experience.
Flaherty began his legal career as an Assistant State Attorney, prosecuting drug crimes and sexual assault cases. He later represented the City of Jacksonville and worked in the General Counsel's office of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department before joining Farah & Farah.
Among his notable results: a $3.4 million jury verdict on behalf of a client who was injured when a pleasure boat collided with a barge under Blanding Bridge — a verdict that was upheld on appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta.
Flaherty is admitted to The Florida Bar.
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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