About Stephen Craig
Attorney Stephen Craig has been a fixture in the Central Florida legal community for close to three decades, but his path to law was not traditional. In 1986, Steve enlisted in the United States Army as a Foreign Counterintelligence Special Agent, with assignments throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Caribbean. He eventually received a direct commission as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves and earned multiple joint-service and Army decorations, including the Joint-Service Commendation Medal. After his service, he established a successful investigative and legal support practice in Orlando.
Following the September 11 attacks, Steve returned briefly to federal civil service as an intelligence officer, last posted as the Senior Intelligence Representative to the Orlando FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. In 2004, he returned to practice as a legal investigator and began working with The Maher Law Firm. While working full-time, Steve earned his law degree from Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Central Florida and is now admitted to practice in Florida and before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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.
