About Jeff Murphy
Jeff Murphy is Of Counsel at The Yerrid Law Firm, a designation he has held since 2018 after collaborating with the firm on cases over the prior decade. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, has lived in Tampa since 1972, and attended the University of Pennsylvania before earning his J.D. with honors from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, graduating in the top 10% of his class. He has 30 years of experience as a trial lawyer focusing on personal injury and wrongful death. Murphy has represented hundreds of clients in motor vehicle and trucking accidents and has handled large, complex matters, including cases against two major universities for the wrongful deaths of college football players: one resulted in a $10 million jury verdict and the other in the university's admission of liability.
He represented victims of the 2017 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay mass shooting in a global settlement of $800 million. He is also part of the team representing over 150 retired NFL players in the NFL Concussion Settlement. Murphy holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell (awarded to fewer than 10% of attorneys), is a member of the Florida Justice Association and the Hillsborough County Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Yerrid Law Firm
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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 Hernando County jury returned a $330 million verdict for Angela Stone after a drunk driver ran a stop sign and fatally struck a minivan carrying her 13-year-old daughter.
A Hillsborough County jury awarded $216.8 million to Allan Navarro after an emergency room misdiagnosed his stroke as sinusitis, leaving him permanently paralyzed. It was the largest medical malpractice verdict in Florida history at the time.
A Hillsborough County jury awarded $76.8 million in compensatory damages to the family of Dana Maria Rivera, a 36-year-old mother of four killed on February 28, 2025, when Nicholas Betancourt, released from a DUI arrest that same morning, crossed the center line on Gunn Highway in Odessa while impaired by cocaine and methamphetamine.
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