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About Brent Steinberg
Brent Steinberg is a partner at Swope, Rodante P.A. and one of only 216 Florida Bar members board-certified as an appellate specialist. He handles catastrophic injury, insurance bad faith, legal malpractice, and insurance coverage cases throughout Florida and Georgia at both the trial and appellate levels. He joined the firm as a law clerk in 2009, became a full-time attorney in 2010, and was elevated to partner in 2018. He has served as lead appellate counsel at the Florida Supreme Court, all six Florida District Courts of Appeal, the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
He also served as trial counsel in a $30.1 million traumatic brain injury verdict and successfully defended that verdict to the Florida Supreme Court in 2023. He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, the National Trial Lawyers, and the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. He was awarded the FJA's 2023 S. Victor Tipton award for superior achievement in legal writing.
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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