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About James Terrell
James T. Terrell is the founding partner of Terrell Hogan Law. Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, he earned both his B.A. and J.D. from Stetson University and served as a captain in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1970 before beginning his legal career. Early in his career as a defense attorney, a moment in which an unprepared plaintiff's attorney left an injured passenger uncompensated convinced Jim to switch sides and dedicate his work to representing injured victims.
In 1974, he joined attorneys Hank Searcy and Tom Brown to form Searcy, Brown & Terrell, the predecessor firm to Terrell Hogan Law. In one notable case, Jim and a colleague represented a sanitation worker who suffered catastrophic injuries after being struck while riding on the rear of a garbage truck; the case revealed a dangerous design flaw and prompted manufacturers to add warning lights, improving safety for workers nationwide. He has received Board Certification as a Civil Trial Lawyer from the Florida Bar Board of Certification.
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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