About Charles Micklavzina
Charles Micklavzina is a personal injury attorney at Farah & Farah's Port Charlotte, Florida office, where he focuses on motor vehicle and other plaintiff personal injury matters. Before becoming an attorney, he worked as a paralegal at the Florida State Attorney's Office, gaining a foundation in criminal justice work that informs his current practice.
Micklavzina is recognized for his compassionate approach to client representation and his ability to build strong, long-term client relationships. He is a recipient of the William F. Blews Award for Pro Bono Legal Service.
He earned his B.A. from the University of Arkansas–Fayetteville and his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law. He is a member of The Florida Bar.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Farah & Farah
These results are credited to Farah & Farah. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
