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About Christopher Burns
Christopher G. Burns is a Florida bicycle accident attorney and advocate for cyclists' rights, with over 35 years of experience and hundreds of successfully resolved bicycle-related cases statewide. He earned his B.A. from Purdue University and Kalamazoo College (1982) and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University (1985), and was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1985. An avid cyclist himself, Chris has experienced three significant crashes over his decades on the road, giving him firsthand understanding of the physical and emotional toll cyclists face.
He represents clients throughout Florida and provides referrals to bicycle accident attorneys nationwide for out-of-state clients. Chris has served as President of the Jacksonville Justice Association (2005), as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Jacksonville Country Day School, and as Chairman of the Sports Entertainment Board for the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission. He has been named to Florida Super Lawyers from 2009 and 2011 through 2022 and to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Terrell Hogan
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C. Steven Yerrid, the youngest of Florida's 11-lawyer 'Dream Team,' added racketeering and conspiracy charges that tripled the damages ceiling, helping the state secure what was then the largest civil settlement in American history against the tobacco industry.
A Duval County jury awarded $15.2 million, $3.9 million compensatory and $11.3 million punitive, to the daughter of a lifelong Lorillard smoker who died of lung cancer, with Terrell Hogan attorneys representing the family.
Wayne Hogan secured Florida's first asbestos punitive damages verdict for a Navy veteran who developed asbestosis from decades of exposure to Johns-Manville products, with the jury awarding $1.86 million in combined compensatory and punitive damages, affirmed on appeal in 1984.
A Jacksonville shipyard insulator who developed severe lung disease from years of handling Philip Carey asbestos cement won a $615,000 jury verdict against Celotex Corporation, the company that had absorbed Philip Carey through merger, and the Florida Supreme Court later affirmed that a successor corporation can be held liable for punitive damages based on its predecessor's reckless conduct.
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