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About Evan Yegelwel
Evan J. Yegelwel has been with Terrell Hogan Law for over 38 years, representing victims of personal injury, product liability, and mass torts. A Florida Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, Evan graduated from Rutgers College with his B.A. with Highest Honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then earned his J.D. with Honors in 1980 from the University of Florida Holland Law Center, receiving the Book Award in Law and Medicine and induction into the Order of the Coif. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1981.
Evan has lectured nationally and internationally on toxic torts and chaired numerous seminars for legal professionals. He served as Chair of the Fourth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee in 2014 and is a Trustee Emeritus of the University of Florida School of Law. In 1995, he established the Evan J. Yegelwel Book Award in Environmental Law at UF, and in 2000 he founded the Evan J. Yegelwel Fellowship Fund to support legal internships combating anti-Semitism, racism, and bigotry. He co-created Evan's Hope, an endowment at the Mayo Clinic for ALS research and patient care.
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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