About Tyler Dupuy
Tyler M. Dupuy is the Managing Attorney of Farah & Farah's Fort Myers, Florida office and a civil trial attorney handling complex litigation across Florida's Gulf Coast. His practice covers traumatic injury and wrongful death cases stemming from motor vehicle collisions, DUI incidents, slip-and-fall accidents, negligent security, and other catastrophic matters.
Dupuy began his career at the State Attorney's Office, then moved to civil practice, where he defended large corporations and insurance companies in personal injury cases. He brings that dual-perspective experience to his current plaintiffs' work. During law school he was elected President of Moot Court, served on the Florida Bar's Law Student Division Board of Governors, and clerked at the Florida Third District Court of Appeal. He currently sits on The Florida Bar Standing Committee on Prepaid Legal Services, which works to expand access to legal services for low-to-middle-income Floridians.
Dupuy received the 2025 Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Pro Bono Award at the Florida Supreme Court.
He earned his B.S. in Legal Studies (with a minor in Political Science) from Florida Gulf Coast University and his J.D. from Florida International University College of Law. He is admitted to The Florida Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and is a Barrister of the Calusa American Inn of Court. He is also a member of the Lee County Bar Association, the Florida Justice Association, the American Association for Justice, the Florida Sheriff's Association, and Captains for Clean Water.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
