The Maher Law Firm
About the firm
The Maher Law Firm, based in Winter Park, Florida, has represented injured victims across the state and the country since 1969. The firm handles personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, wrongful death, and class action cases, and has recovered billions of dollars on behalf of clients.
Notable results
Michael C. Maher's firm, Maher, Gibson & Guiley, P.A., was one of eleven private law firms appointed to the state's Peoples' Trial Advocates in Florida's Medicaid cost-recovery lawsuit against the major cigarette manufacturers, which produced an $11.3 billion settlement, the largest tobacco recovery by a single state in U.S. history at the time.
A Broward County jury awarded $24 million to the widower of Alana DeMella, a seven-months-pregnant hotel guest killed when a drunk driver crashed into a pool cabana at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale in 2012.
A Florida jury awarded $10 million to the family of a 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome who died after a pharmacy dispensed more than ten times the prescribed dose of methadone.
A jury returned a $2.5 million verdict against Coloplast -- the first in the nation targeting its Novasilk pelvic organ prolapse mesh -- after finding the device was defectively designed and that the company failed to warn Virginia Redding's physician of its risks.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
