Case Results

Brandon Cathey

Co-founder, CEO, and Lead Trial Lawyer

Results

Brandon's results speak for themselves. Some of the more notable results of the last 5 years:

• In December 2021, his client recovered $2 million for the wrongful death of his wife in an Orlando head-on collision, where the defendant had only a $1 million policy with competing claims against it.
• In August 2021, his client received a $10 million settlement after breaking his neck on a tackle at a summer football camp in Deland that required all participants to sign pre-activity liability releases. Click to read the article.
• In June 2021, his client received an opinion from the Second District affirming the denial of a $4 million set-off.
• In May 2021, his client received an opinion from the Second District reversing a directed verdict for the defendant, resulting in a $7.1 million judgment against the defendant.
• In April 2020, his client settled a Jacksonville bad faith lawsuit for $2.99 million on a $100,000 policy.
• In March 2020, his client won a $2 million settlement on a premise liability claim in Orlando with no indemnity coverage.
• In May 2019, his clients' won a $3.8 million jury verdict after breaking his foot in a motorcycle accident in Riverview.
• In March 2019, his clients won a $30.1 million jury verdict after suffering a TBI in a T-bone collision in Thonotosassa.  The insurance company refused to agree to more than $148,000 in damages. Click to watch local tv news report.
• In June 2018, his clients won a $6.7 million verdict in a food poisoning case against a Tampa restaurant after its insurance company made its highest offer of $20,000. Click to watch local tv news report.
• In March 2018, his clients received a $1.5 million settlement for the wrongful death of their adult daughter in Atlanta where the defendant had a policy limit of only $25,000.
• In December 2017, his clients received a $12.5 million settlement for a paralysis case in Port Charlotte where the insurance company's highest prior offer had been its $300,000 policy limit.
• In November 2017, his client won an important bad-faith decision from the Georgia Court of Appeals.  Brandon presented the oral argument for the policyholder before the Georgia Supreme Court, which was covered extensively by the national legal media.
• In August 2017, following a bad faith jury verdict in Atlanta, affirmed by the United States 11th Circuit, his clients recovered $10 million over a $100,000 policy limit.
• In June 2017, his client won a $717,000 UM verdict in Orlando against State Farm after it made its highest offer of $100.

Reported Decisions

Brandon has been at the forefront of landmark legal issues in his field, in both Florida and Georgia, establishing himself as an accomplished appellate advocate.

• Ellison v. Willoughby, No. 2D19-1961 (Fla. 2d DCA 2021) 
• Martinez v. Lobster Haven, LLC, 320 So. 3d 873 (Fla. 2d DCA 2021) 
• Harmon Parker, P.A. v. Santek Mgmt., LLC, 311 So. 3d 213 (Fla. 2d DCA 2020) 
• Hughes v. Mid-Continent Cas. Co., 264 So. 3d 1053 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019) 
• Gray v. AHCA, 288 So. 3d 95 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019)  
• First Acceptance Co. of Ga., Inc. v. Hughes, 826 S.E. 2d 71 (Ga. 2019)  
• Hughes v. First Acceptance Ins. Co. of Ga., Inc., 836 S.E. 2d 634 (Ga. App. 2019) 
• Moxley v. U-Haul Company of Florida, 308 So. 3d 91 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019) 
• USAA v. Lynch, 255 So. 3d 818 (Fla. 2d DCA 2018) 
• Moxley v. Infinity Indem. Inc. Co., Case No. 2D16-3973 (Fla. 2d DCA 2018) 
• Ray v. Fowler White, Case No. 2D17-2697 (Fla. 2d DCA 2018) 
• Hughes v. First Acceptance Co. of Ga., Inc., 808 S.E. 2d 103 (Ga. App. 2017) 
• Willoughby v. AHCA, 212 So. 3d 516 (Fla. 2d DCA 2017) 
• Allstate v. Schlichting, 174 So. 3d 1000 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015) 
• Belizaire v. Gray, 173 So. 3d 969 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015) 
• New Hampshire Indem. Co. v. Gray, 177 So. 3d 56 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015) 
• Gray v. Belizaire, 146 So. 3d 1175 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014) 
• Lydacker Lee et al v. Brown, 156 So. 3d 1092 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) 
• Camacho v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 13 F. Supp. 3d 1343 (N.D. Ga. 2014) 
• Moxley v. U-Haul Co. of Fla., 148 So. 3d 132 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) 
• Markel Am. Ins. Co. v. Baker, 152 So. 3d 86 (Fla. 5th DCA 2014)  
• Roman v. Bogle, 113 So. 3d 1011 (Fla. 5th DCA 2013)

Stephanie Miles

Co-founder and Lead Trial Lawyer

Results

Stephanie has built great cases from scratch, turned brand new law grads into skilled trial lawyers, and won repeatedly for her clients when she has been the only attorney facing dozens of defense lawyers in cases against heavy industry, insurance companies, and hospitals. During trials, she enjoys a reputation for being the last to bed and the first to rise, even if it means sleeping on the couch in her office. If the job needs to be done, it will get done because of Stephanie.

Stephanie has handled a wide variety of high-stakes cases arising from sports injuries, defective products, car accidents, medical malpractice, and insurance bad faith. She has tried bad faith and catastrophic personal injury cases in federal and state courts in Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Naples, and Deland. This past summer, her trial team recovered $10 million for a young man who was paralyzed at a summer football camp. She was also part of the appellate team that convinced Florida's Supreme Court to hold insurance companies liable for attorney's fees that result from unaccepted proposals for settlement.

Reported Decisions

Some of Stephanie's Reported Decisions:

• Milling v. Travelers Home & Marine Ins. Co., 311 So. 3d 289 (Fla. 2d DCA 2020) 
• Ellis v. Trevino, Case No. 2D20-458 (Fla. 2d DCA 2020) 
• Bove Grand, Inc. v. Diamond, Case No. 2D17-4955 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019) 
• Bove Grand, Inc. v. Diamond, 243 So. 3d 350 (Fla. 2d DCA 2018)  
• USAA v. Lynch, 255 So. 3d 818 (Fla. 2d DCA 2018) 
• GEICO v. Macedo, 228 So. 3d 1111 (Fla. 2017) 
• Bottini v. GEICO, 859 F. 3d 987 (11th Cir. 2017)  
• Belizaire v. Gray, 173 So. 3d 969 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015) 
• New Hampshire Indem. Co. v. Gray, 177 So. 3d 56 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015) 
• Gray v. Belizaire, 146 So. 3d 1175 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014) 
• Ortiz v. Regalado, 116 So. 3d 451 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013) 
• New Hampshire Indem. Co. v. Scott, 910 F. Supp. 2d 1341 (M.D. Fla. Dec. 13, 2012) 
• Kearney v. Auto-Owners Ins. Co., Case No. 8:06-cv-595-T-24 TGW (M.D. Fla. Apr. 21, 2011)

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