Franklin Duke Regan

Attorney at Pajcic & Pajcic
Jacksonville, FL15 years experience

About Franklin Duke Regan

Franklin Duke Regan, Esq. is a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer at Pajcic & Pajcic, specializing in medical malpractice and civil litigation. He joined the firm in 2023 after spending more than 15 years as an insurance defense litigator. Regan attended high school with firm partner Seth Pajcic.

In his prior insurance defense practice, Regan was recognized with Chambers and Partners' highest rating for medical negligence litigation. He has been named to Florida Super Lawyers Rising Stars and Florida Trend's Legal Elite multiple years. During law school, he was named most outstanding new associate at Stetson Law Review, served as a staff editor of the Review, and served as President of the National Conference of Law Reviews.

He earned his J.D. cum laude from Stetson University College of Law in 2005, where he received a Certificate of Concentration in International Law, and his B.A. in History from Florida State University in 2001 on a full academic scholarship. He is admitted to the Florida Bar and to the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Pajcic & Pajcic

These results are credited to Pajcic & Pajcic. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Nassau County jury found two trucking companies responsible for the 2017 chain-reaction crash on I-95 near Yulee that killed 18-year-old Connor Dzion, returning a $1 billion verdict that Curry Pajcic won for the teen's parents.

Nassau County Circuit Court, FL · 2021Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

A Nassau County jury awarded $141.5 million, including $125 million in punitive damages, against K&N Logging after an unvetted driver's 80,000-pound log truck plowed into stopped school-zone traffic and left a young child with permanent brain damage.

Nassau County Circuit Court, FL · 2024Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$21 millionVerdict

A 4-month-old girl died in May 2019 after being left about five hours in a hot van outside a Jacksonville preschool, and the owner later pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter. In January 2022 a Duval County jury awarded her mother $21 million in a wrongful death case against the preschool. The insurer denied coverage, and the resulting federal coverage case settled on undisclosed terms in 2024.

Circuit Court, Duval County, Florida (Jacksonville) · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$18.74 millionVerdict

A Duval County jury returned an $18.74 million verdict after Joshua Mathews suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2012 assault outside Pete's Bar in Neptune Beach.

Duval County Circuit Court, FL · 2016Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$10.2 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2005 · #9

A Duval County jury found that the collapsing roof and a defective seatbelt of a 2000 Ford Explorer caused a young driver's death in a Virginia rollover, returning $10,184,315 against Ford in the first verdict aimed squarely at the Explorer's roof and belt design.

Duval County Circuit Court, FL · 2005Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Stetson University College of Law
B.A. in History, 2005
Florida State University
Undergraduate, 2001

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
Florida Bar Association
American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)

Awards & recognition

Florida Bar Board Certified — Civil Trial Lawyer
Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star
Florida Trend Legal Elite
Chambers and Partners — highest rating, medical negligence litigation
Most Outstanding New Associate, Stetson Law Review

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