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About Dayna Nilsen
Dayna N. Nilsen is a Personal Injury Attorney and Partner at Rubenstein Law's Orlando office. She grew up in New York and moved to Tampa, Florida to attend the University of South Florida, earning her B.A. in Political Science in 2012, before receiving her J.D. from Barry University School of Law in 2015. While in law school, she was a member of the trial team and received the Book Award in trial advocacy. She served as a Certified Legal Intern for the State Attorney's Office in the Ninth Judicial Circuit and interned for an Orlando personal injury firm.
After admission to the Florida Bar, she practiced as a plaintiff personal injury attorney for four years, then worked at an insurance defense firm. She was elevated to partner at Rubenstein Law in 2025. Her practice covers automobile accidents, trucking accidents, personal injury, slip and fall, medical malpractice, and negligence cases.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Rubenstein Law Personal Injury Lawyers
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A Massachusetts jury returned a $1 billion punitive verdict against Philip Morris in 2022 over the lung cancer death of Barbara Fontaine, a case handled in part by Rubenstein Law attorney Kevin Donovan; the punitive award was later reduced to $56 million, a figure the state Supreme Judicial Court upheld in April 2026.
A Middlesex County jury awarded Joseph Reppucci and his wife $20.7 million after finding that R.J. Reynolds and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. bore responsibility for the oropharyngeal cancer he developed following decades of smoking their cigarettes.
A Miami-Dade jury awarded $6 million to the widow of Oscar Cabrera, a construction worker killed in February 2017 when a remotely operated Metromover train struck a boom lift near the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. station while he was working on the Brightline terminal project.
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