About Ryan Thompson
Ryan E. Thompson is a personal injury attorney and the managing attorney of Farah & Farah's Yulee, Florida office. He focuses on auto accident, slip-and-fall, and other plaintiff personal injury matters, and is described by colleagues as a natural leader and tireless advocate for every dollar his clients deserve.
Thompson is a U.S. Army veteran who served with the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, including two deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He served as a Tank Platoon Leader and as Executive Officer of a Mechanized Infantry Company, and was awarded two Bronze Star Medals along with multiple other commendations.
Thompson earned his B.A. in Business Administration from Furman University and his J.D. cum laude from Florida Coastal School of Law. He is admitted to The Florida Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and is a member of the Florida Bar Trial Law Section, the Jacksonville Bar Association, the Florida Justice Association, and the American Bar Association. He was named to the 2026 Best Lawyers Awards.
Thompson has secured substantial recoveries for clients, including a $600,000 recovery for a client injured by a construction truck on Interstate 95 — a case in which the defense initially offered nothing.
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.
