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John Viggiani 
Jacksonville, Florida
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phone(904) 358-4221
fax(904) 355-0019
emailjjviggiani@mdwcg.com

For more than 20 years, John has been providing legal counsel to individuals and companies throughout Florida. John handles a wide variety of matters, ranging from defending construction accident and defect cases on behalf of contractors and sub-contractors, defense of premises liability cases for two nationally known property owners and managers, and litigating cases involving rental car companies and the application of the Graves Amendment. During his career, John has also handled products liability and negligent security claims and issues.

Before coming to Marshall Dennehey, John was the managing attorney for the Jacksonville office of the defense firm Conroy, Simberg, Ganon, Krevans & Abel, P.A., where he oversaw that office's liability division and defended all type of personal injury and construction claims.

Significant Representatives Matters

  • Defense verdict where plaintiff was ejected from a scissor lift on a construction sight due to the alleged gross negligence of our client. The plaintiff made a demand of $2 million. The plaintiff was challenging Florida's recently enacted Horizontal Immunity law, which provides for immunity to a sub-contractor for claims made by an employee of another subcontractor on a construction site. This was reportedly the first case in Florida tried to verdict under this new law.

  • Dismissal of claims brought by a defendant/third party plaintiff for subrogation, common law indemnification, and contractual indemnification against the plaintiff's employer for alleged negligent hiring, training, and supervision of the plaintiff and another employee when they were hooking a tractor to a trailer. As the truck was backing up, the truck engine surged backward, pinning the plaintiff's leg and causing him to lose most of his leg.

  • Dismissal with prejudice of an automobile negligence injury claim brought by a husband and wife against a nationally recognized rental car company where the renter of the car caused the accident which injured the plaintiff. The court dismissed the vicarious liability portion of the case against the rental car company based upon the Graves Amendment, which limits the amount of certain claims and precludes others from being brought against rental car companies.

  • Obtained a ruling limiting the plaintiff's damages in a catastrophic injury case where the plaintiff was a passenger in a single vehicle accident. The driver was a non-authorized driver of the rental vehicle. The case and damages against a nationally recognized rental car company were limited to the $10,000 provided for under the Graves Amendment.
    • Year Joined Organization:
    2007
    Areas of Practice:
    Insurance Defense
    Bar Admissions:
    Florida, 1988
    U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida
    U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida
    U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida
    Michigan, 1989
    U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
    U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan
    U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
    U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
    U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
    Education:
    Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan, 1987
    J.D.


    Florida Atlantic University, 1984
    Bachelor's Degree, Public Administration


    Published Works:
    Florida's Immunity Defenses for Worksite Accidents, Florida Professional Liability and Ethics Law Letter, April 2008, (publication pending)


    Is the Greathouse Case Really Great?, Defense Digest, June, 2008


    Classes/Seminars Taught:
    Conducted various seminars to clients on the following topics: construction-related issues involving applicable immunities, common law and contractual indemnification, automobile and premises liability claims, punitive damages, and bad faith, 2004-present


    Speaker, Legal Writing Seminar, Florida Legal Assistants and Paralegals, 2008


    Professional Associations and Memberships:
    Defense Research Institute


    Florida Defense Lawyers Association


    Jacksonville Bar Association


    Jacksonville Defense Lawyers Association


    National Italian-American Lawyers Association


    Fraternities/Sororities:
    Phi Alpha Delta

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