Wayne Hogan of Terrell Hogan in Jacksonville is a Florida and National Board-Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, former chair and current member of the Florida Bar Civil Procedure Rules Committee, and former member of the Code and Rules of Evidence Committee. He is past president of the Florida Justice Association, recipient of AAJ’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Harry Philo Award, a Champion Level Leaders Forum member and has served four times on AAJ’s executive committee.
Hogan has multiple punitive damage verdicts in defective products trials, the first, in 1981, for a Navy veteran family—Florida’s first asbestos disease punitive damages verdict and the precedent-setting appeal, Johns-Manville Sales Corp. v. Janssens.
The firm, founded in 1972, has represented thousands of victims of asbestos diseases in the Southeast, beginning with Jacksonville’s first mesothelioma action in the late 1970s, and joined other trial firms in Florida’s leading-edge RICO action against the cigarette industry. Hogan presently represents public school districts providing special education services to children afflicted by Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome, and against Social Media companies for the effects of their platforms.