About George Johnson
George S. Johnson has headed his own law practice since 2008, handling more than 1,000 personal injury cases, including automobile accidents, slip and fall accidents, defective product accidents, and nursing home and extended care abuse. He has more than 15 years of experience in civil litigation, including five years of insurance defense. A former U.S. Army Reservist, George earned his law degree with honors from Indiana University's Maurer School of Law. He also holds a Master's degree in Telecommunications from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Maher Law Firm
These results are credited to The Maher Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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 Broward County jury awarded $24 million to the widower of Alana DeMella, a seven-months-pregnant hotel guest killed when a drunk driver crashed into a pool cabana at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale in 2012.
A Florida jury awarded $10 million to the family of a 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome who died after a pharmacy dispensed more than ten times the prescribed dose of methadone.
A Philadelphia Common Pleas jury found Jeanes Hospital and Hillcrest Convalescent Home equally responsible for the pressure sores and infections that led to Joe Blango's death in 2008. It awarded $1 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The trial court molded the compensatory award to $1,029,722.30 and remitted the punitive awards to $500,000 and $1 million, leaving about $2.53 million.
An Orlando federal jury awarded Virginia Redding $2.5 million after finding that Coloplast's NovaSilk pelvic organ prolapse mesh was defectively designed and that the company had concealed known risks from her physician, in what was the first jury verdict against Coloplast for that specific device.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
