LaTesha O'Neal-Austin

Attorney at Pajcic & Pajcic
Jacksonville, FL25 years experience

About LaTesha O'Neal-Austin

LaTesha O'Neal-Austin is a Case Manager at Pajcic & Pajcic with more than 25 years of experience investigating and negotiating settlements for catastrophic injury cases. Previously a senior insurance adjuster, she joined the firm in 2019 — recruited from the opposing side of a case against Pajcic & Pajcic — and applies the lessons learned while working for insurance carriers to create positive outcomes for clients.

She is a Licensed All Lines Florida Adjuster, a Florida Notary, and a Florida Bar Registered Paralegal.

O'Neal-Austin earned her Bachelor of Science in Political Science (with a minor in Public Administration) from Florida A&M University.

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

Florida A&M University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

Florida Bar — Registered Paralegal
Florida Justice Association

Awards & recognition

Licensed All Lines Florida Adjuster
Florida Notary

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