About Jason Fraxedas
Jason Fraxedas was born and raised in the Orlando area. With a passion for biological sciences, he majored in psychology with an emphasis in neurobiology at the University of Florida before graduating from Stetson University College of Law in 2008. While a student at Stetson, he participated in the certified legal intern program and was certified by the Florida Supreme Court to provide free legal aid to low-income individuals. He is admitted in Florida, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Northern Districts of Florida.
Based in Orlando, he has helped thousands of people in Florida and across the country. He has been selected for inclusion on the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list from 2013 to 2019, an honor limited to 2.5% of lawyers in Florida, and has been named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 from 2017 to the present. He serves as a board member of the Florida Justice Association and is a member of the American Association for Justice and the Orange County Bar Association.
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.
