About Travis Russell
Travis L. Russell is a personal injury attorney at Farah & Farah's Fort Myers, Florida office, just off College Parkway. He represents plaintiffs in motor vehicle, slip-and-fall, wrongful death, and other personal injury matters across Southwest Florida.
Russell brings unusually broad frontline experience to plaintiffs' work. Before law school he served as a paralegal in insurance defense and as a pre-suit manager in personal injury practice. After being admitted to the bar, he began his legal career in the Public Defender's Office, where he spent as many as four days a week in court and obtained successful trial verdicts for his clients.
Russell earned his B.S. in Legal Studies from the University of Central Florida (Dean's List) and his J.D. from Florida Coastal School of Law as an Honors Merit Scholar. He is admitted to The Florida Bar and is a member of the Florida Justice Association, the Lee County Bar Association, the Lee County Legal Aid Board of Directors, the Florida Bar Voluntary Bar Liaison Committee, and the Calusa American Inn of Court.
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.
