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About Angela Rodante
Angela Rodante is Managing Partner of Swope, Rodante P.A., where she has built a 28-year career as a nationally recognized civil litigator. She began with the firm as a clerk and runner in 1985 and became a partner in 2003. She specializes in civil trial litigation with a focus on personal injury and insurance bad faith. Rodante has been elected president of the Tampa Bay Trial Lawyers Association, has earned the AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and received the Client Distinction Award from Martindale-Hubbell.
Best Lawyers has named her Insurance Lawyer of the Year, including Tampa's 2026 Litigation Insurance Lawyer of the Year. She holds a Superb rating from AVVO and is licensed to practice before all Florida state and federal courts and the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. She graduated from the University of South Florida and earned her J.D. from Widener University School of Law.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Swope Rodante PA
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A Hillsborough County jury awarded $30.1 million to a passenger left with a permanent brain injury after the truck driver's insurer refused to offer more than its $100,000 policy limit, a verdict the Florida Supreme Court unanimously preserved in 2023.
A Manatee County jury returned an $11 million verdict, including more than $9.8 million in punitive damages, against road-construction subcontractor L.E. Myers Co. after the firm proved it failed to close a required traffic lane, leading to a fatal collision in the work zone.
A Hillsborough County jury awarded $6.7 million to Angel Martinez and his wife after contaminated oysters served at a Tampa seafood restaurant triggered Guillain-Barre syndrome that left him paralyzed from the waist down for months.
A Hardee County jury awarded $5 million to the parents of Michael Lieux, a former Marine with a brain injury who died of positional asphyxia after FINR staff pinned him face-down using a technique the facility called 'therapeutic containment.'
Anthony Ellis, 21, was hit by a left-turning driver while riding his motorcycle on US 301 in Riverview, Florida, in January 2016. He needed knee reconstruction and had broken bones in his foot. A Hillsborough County jury awarded about $3.83 million in May 2019 after a four-day trial in which the defense disputed fault.
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