About Hunter Bedard

Hunter W. Bedard represents business and individual clients in all phases of litigation in state and federal court. He focuses his practice on fraud, breach of contract, tortious interference, negligence, defamation, and employment matters, including drafting policy handbooks and defending businesses against discrimination claims. He earned his B.A. in Advertising with a minor in Innovation summa cum laude from the University of Florida, and his J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he received a Dean's Leadership Award for his service as Executive Articles Editor of the Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review and President of the Entertainment and Sports Law Society. He is a member of the Jacksonville Bar Association.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Terrell Hogan

These results are credited to Terrell Hogan. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$11.3 billionSettlementLargest in FloridaLargest of 1997

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.

Florida (State v. American Tobacco Co.) · 1997Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$15.2 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2011 · #16

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.

Duval County, FL / Fla. 1st DCA · 2011Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$1.86 millionVerdict

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.

Jacksonville, FL / Fla. 1st DCA · 1981Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$615,000Verdict

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.

Jacksonville, FL / Fla. Supreme Court · 1984Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

University of Florida Levin College of Law
J.D.
University of Florida
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.