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About Melissa Renza
Melissa S. Renza is a personal injury attorney at Rubenstein Law, focusing on motor vehicle accidents and premises liability. Born in the Chicago suburbs but a longtime South Florida resident, she began her career with a dedicated personal injury litigation team before joining Rubenstein Law in 2025. She is licensed in nine states. In July 2025, she was sworn in as President of the Martin County Women Lawyers Association (a chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers) for the 2025-2026 term.
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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