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About Dale Swope
Dale Swope is Managing Partner of Swope, Rodante P.A., which grew from a solo practice he founded six months out of law school in 1979. A Tampa native and graduate of Hillsborough High School, the University of South Florida, and the University of Florida Levin College of Law, he is the firm's most senior attorney. He has been Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Florida Bar since 1992 and was previously Board Certified as a Business Litigation Specialist from 1995 to 2005. He holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and a Superb rating from AVVO, has been named a Super Lawyer, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2005.
He was the original incorporator of the Tampa Bay Trial Lawyers Association and served as President of the Florida Justice Association in 2017-2018. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the American Law Institute. His practice focuses on medical malpractice, insurance bad faith, and personal injury.
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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