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About Joshua Kaleel
Joshua T. Kaleel is a Warranty Claims and Lemon Law attorney at Farah & Farah's Jacksonville, Florida office, where he leads the firm's consumer law team. He represents consumers against manufacturers and retailers in defective product, breach of warranty, and Lemon Law disputes.
Kaleel started in the law at age 17 as a runner for a local firm, and after law school he spent years on the defense side representing major automobile manufacturers — including Ford, Volkswagen, and Mitsubishi — against breach of warranty claims. Founding partners Chuck and Eddie Farah recruited him directly to bring that defense-side knowledge to a plaintiffs' consumer law practice. He handles matters from pre-suit through litigation.
Kaleel 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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