About Kimberly Wald

Kimberly Wald is a partner and trial attorney at The Haggard Law Firm focusing on sexual assault, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, drowning, and boating injury cases. She has obtained over 400 million dollars in jury trials and settlements for clients, and in December 2024 she was part of the trial team that won the 310 million dollar verdict in Orlando in the Sampson wrongful death case arising from the Orlando FreeFall amusement ride. In July 2021 she obtained a 35 million dollar jury verdict for a paralyzed Navy veteran catastrophically injured in a car crash, and in November 2023 a 7.5 million dollar jury verdict in Gainesville in a wrongful death case involving a father of two minor children. Her other results include a 26 million dollar settlement in a non-fatal catastrophic drowning case and second-chair verdicts against major cigarette manufacturers, including a 28.795 million dollar verdict in Konzelman v. R.J.

Reynolds. She began her career at Kelley Uustal in Fort Lauderdale handling complex product liability and medical malpractice cases. In 2024 she was inducted into the Fort Lauderdale chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and she has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star and one of Best Lawyers in America's Ones to Watch from 2020 through 2025. A Fort Lauderdale native, she serves on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Proven verdicts and settlements

An Orange County jury awarded $310 million to the parents of Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old who fell to his death from the Orlando FreeFall drop tower at ICON Park in 2022, in a case tried by Kimberly Wald and Michael Haggard against ride manufacturer Funtime Handels GmbH, which sent no lawyer or representative to the trial, leaving collection of the judgment from the absent Austrian company uncertain.

Ninth Judicial Circuit, Orange County, Florida · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
J.D., 2014
Tulane University, Freeman School of Business
Undergraduate, 2011

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.