Colson Hicks Eidson
About the firm
Colson Hicks Eidson is a Miami-based boutique trial firm, founded in 1967, widely recognized as one of the top plaintiff litigation firms in the United States. Its trial-tested attorneys handle complex civil litigation, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, medical negligence, product liability, class actions and mass torts, and white-collar defense for clients locally, nationally, and internationally. The multilingual team has secured numerous multimillion-dollar and landmark verdicts and settlements over more than five decades of practice.
Notable results
After Champlain Towers South collapsed in the middle of the night and killed 98 people, Curtis Miner of Colson Hicks Eidson served as court-appointed liaison counsel for the wrongful death and personal injury claimants, part of a leadership team that reached a roughly $1.02 billion class settlement.
A Miami federal court entered a roughly $440 million judgment against Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, and MSC for using port terminals Cuba confiscated in 1960, a result the Supreme Court reinstated by a vote of 8 to 1 in 2026.
Colson Hicks Eidson served as co-counsel to a class of Jewish families and helped reach a roughly $100 million settlement with Service Corporation International after workers at two South Florida Menorah Gardens cemeteries buried people in the wrong graves and discarded scattered remains.
A Miami-Dade jury found Eller Media liable for the 1998 electrocution of a 12-year-old boy at a bus shelter wired by unlicensed electricians and awarded $65.1 million.
A federal judge found the Navy's Jacksonville hospital liable for the brain injury of a baby born in distress and entered a $60.9 million award, then the largest Federal Tort Claims Act recovery in the country, before part of it was cut on appeal.
After a speeding BMW rear-ended a mother and her four children stopped at an Ocala red light, a Marion County jury awarded the family nearly $52 million, reported as the largest verdict in the county's history.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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