The cases listed below provide a snapshot of the work that Colson Hicks Eidson has done recently. Since 2000, the firm has obtained over $300 million in verdicts and settlements for its clients. These are significant not just because of the multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements obtained for our clients, but also because of the wide variety of cases the firm is willing to undertake.

• In 2005, the firm obtained a $60.9 million award, the largest amount ever awarded in a Federal Tort Claims Act case in the country. Federal Judge Jose A. Gonzalez found the Obstetrics Clinic in Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville, Florida liable for medical negligence in the delivery of our clients' baby. Judge Gonzalez awarded the boy and his parents, Raiza Bravo and U. S. Navy Serviceman Oscar Rodriguez, $60.9 million in damages.
  
  
• In 2005, a Miami jury awarded a $65.1 million verdict on behalf of our client against Eller Media Company for the electrocution death of our client's 12-year-old son. The jury found that the boy's death was caused by Eller Media employees' shoddy electrical work performed at one of its Miami bus shelters.
  
  
• In 2005, the firm was counsel in a case involving medical malpractice that resulted in severe brain damage to a young child. The case settled on the first day of trial for $10.5 million—believed to be the largest single claimant settlement in Pinellas County, Florida.
  
  
• In 2004, the firm achieved a $100 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Menorah Gardens Cemeteries and its parent company Service Corporation International (SCI), the largest funeral home operator in the nation.
  
  
• In 2002, the firm obtained a $19 million judgment in federal court in Miami against the Government of Aruba on behalf of racecar promoter Ralph Sanchez in connection with the failed efforts to build a racetrack in Aruba.
  
  
• In 2002, the firm obtained a multi-million arbitration award in Washington, D.C., against a major international accounting firm for accounting malpractice.
  
  
• In 2002, the firm obtained a $10 million settlement for the wrongful death caused by the faulty design and installation of a security gate system at a condominium.
  
  
• In 2001, the firm obtained a federal court judgment in the amount of $16 million confirming an arbitration award against the Micossukee Tribe of Indians arising out of a breach of contract regarding the management of the Indian’s gambling operations.
  
  
• In 2001, the firm obtained a $17 million jury verdict in a Miami state court against Ford in a wrongful death lawsuit arising out of the faulty installation of a tire valve stem.
  
  
• In 2001, the firm obtained a $32 million jury verdict in federal court in Miami, including an award of $30 million in punitive damages, on behalf of a Canadian technology company against a Florida technology company for intentional interference with a business relationship.

Throughout the 90’s, Colson Hicks Eidson was involved in a myriad of exciting cases that resulted in multi-million dollar verdicts for our clients.

• One of our partners served as co-lead counsel in the litigation against the Government of Cuba in the murders of four men who were shot down by the Cuban Air Force while flying a humanitarian mission for Brothers to the Rescue. That litigation resulted in a $188 million judgment in federal court in Miami against the Cuban Government and its Air Force. After the passage of two laws through Congress, in 2001 the victims received approximately $100 million from assets of the Cuban Government frozen by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
  
  
• The firm successfully concluded its international litigation and arbitration against AeroPeru and The Boeing Co. in its representation of 42 families who lost their loved ones in the crash of an AeroPeru Boeing 757 off the coast of Peru. The compensation in these cases was some of the highest ever received for an aviation accident occurring in South America.
  
  
• Two of the firm’s partners served as co-lead trial counsel on behalf of the plaintiff class in the Premium Sales case, the largest mass fraud case in South Florida history. The case was settled after the start of the jury trial for $170 million.
  
  
• The firm also was involved in evaluating and prosecuting over $100 million of claims involving engineering, architectural and construction negligence arising out of the destruction caused during Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

Our offices are conveniently located for clients throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties, Florida. We also serve clients nationwide and regularly travel to our clients’ homes and offices.