Swope Rodante PA
About the firm
Swope, Rodante P.A. is a Tampa-based personal injury law firm founded in 1979, specializing in insurance bad faith, medical malpractice, auto and truck accidents, and wrongful death. The firm represents clients statewide across Florida in state and federal courts and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements.
Notable results
A Hillsborough County jury awarded $30.1 million to a passenger left with a permanent brain injury after the truck driver's insurer refused to offer more than its $100,000 policy limit, a verdict the Florida Supreme Court unanimously preserved in 2023.
A Manatee County jury returned an $11 million verdict, including more than $9.8 million in punitive damages, against road-construction subcontractor L.E. Myers Co. after the firm proved it failed to close a required traffic lane, leading to a fatal collision in the work zone.
A Hillsborough County jury awarded $6.7 million to Angel Martinez and his wife after contaminated oysters served at a Tampa seafood restaurant triggered Guillain-Barre syndrome that left him paralyzed from the waist down for months.
A Hardee County jury awarded $5 million to the parents of Michael Lieux, a former Marine with a brain injury who died of positional asphyxia after FINR staff pinned him face-down using a technique the facility called 'therapeutic containment.'
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
