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About Richard Staggard
Richard Arthur 'Rick' Staggard is a personal injury attorney at Farah & Farah's Jacksonville, Florida office, where he has practiced since 2004. He concentrates on motor vehicle and commercial trucking collisions and has secured millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements over more than two decades with the firm — including six-figure recoveries on numerous matters and a seven-figure settlement in the wrongful death of a college student.
Staggard earned his B.A. from Rutgers University–Camden and his J.D. from Rutgers Law School. He is admitted in Florida and Georgia and is a member of The Florida Bar, the Jacksonville Bar Association, the Florida Justice Association, and the American Association for Justice.
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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