About Ricky Favors
Ricky Favors is the Managing Attorney of Farah & Farah's Lake City, Florida office, where he focuses on personal injury, motor vehicle accident, and slip-and-fall cases. He represents clients statewide across Florida, including Lake City, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, and Jacksonville.
Favors brings an unusual background in family therapy to his client relationships, which informs his ability to relate to clients and help them feel comfortable opening up about their cases. He has been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers as one of the Top 40 Under 40, appointed to the Million Dollar Advocates Forum (a distinction held by fewer than 1% of U.S. lawyers), and named to the Orlando Business Journal's 'Most Influential Leaders' list in 2025.
Favors earned his B.S. in Social Sciences and a Master's in Family Therapy from Mercer University, completed post-baccalaureate studies in Social Work at the University of Georgia, and earned his J.D. from Florida A&M University College of Law. He is admitted to The Florida Bar and is a member of the Orange County Bar Association and the Florida Justice Association.
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.
