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William J. Wichmann

William J. Wichmann has been a practicing trial lawyer for more than 35 years. His law firm has represented hundreds of victims and families seriously injured in personal injury, wrongful death, catastrophic accident and mass tort cases throughout the United States and overseas. 

From our offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida we currently represent families of lung cancer, COPD and other smoking disease victims against the tobacco industry in cases throughout Florida. These are families who have filed individual "Engle" suits. In December of 2006, the Florida Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in a case against the tobacco industry that is known as the "Engle" case. The Court upheld a jury verdict finding Big Tobacco liable for smoking-related injuries and deaths, but found that smokers and their families must bring individual suits in order to prove that smoking harmed them and to prove their individual damages. 

We also represent families and victims of negligence, including motor vehicle accidents, product liability cases and complex insurance cases. 

In international litigation, the law firm has represented families of victims killed by terrorist groups overseas as well as personal injury and wrongful death cases arising out of accidents involving commercial air carriers overseas.