Gerson and Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers

Gerson & Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers is a nationally recognized personal injury law firm located in Miami, Florida, with over 100 years of collective experience exclusively representing injury and wrongful death victims and their families. Founded by Philip M. Gerson in 1970, the firm has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading personal injury, cruise ship accident, and maritime injury law firms, handling serious and catastrophic injury cases, wrongful death claims, and rape and sexual assault cases both on land and at sea.

The firm exclusively represents injury victims in a wide range of personal injury claims, including car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, construction accidents, motor vehicle collisions, drunk driving crashes, marine accidents, premises liability, negligent security cases, crime victim cases, medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death claims. 

The firm is consistently top-rated and recognized by Super Lawyers, U.S. News – Best Lawyers,  Best Lawyers in America and Best Law Firms by U.S. News Report for personal injury, maritime, and admiralty law. The firm also holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating and is accredited by the Better Business Bureau. Clients consistently describe Gerson & Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers for their dedication, courtroom experience, and compassion. The firm has tried over 350 jury trials to verdict and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars over the span of more than five decades. These honors are a testament to the firm’s commitment to its clients and reflect its dedication to excellence, strong case results, and aggressive, focused advocacy on behalf of injury victims, qualities that clients themselves highlight in testimonials naming Gerson & Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers among the best in Florida.

Gerson & Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers is also widely known as one of the nation’s premier cruise ship injury law firms, handling a broad range of cruise ship accident cases on behalf of injured passengers, in slip and falls, trip and falls, water slide injury cases, gangway accidents, shore excursion accidents, vessel malfunctions, and violent crime such as rape and sexual assault by passengers and crew members. The firm represents injured cruise passengers and crew members from all fifty states and ports of call nationwide.

The firm’s partners Philip M. Gerson, Nicholas Gerson, Edward Schwartz have litigated personal injury cases in United States federal courts against every major cruise line, including Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Virgin Voyages, MSC Cruises, Holland America Line, and others. 

Partner Nicholas Gerson has been featured on ABC News, Inside Edition, News Nation, and many other national media outlets and news publications. The firm litigates claims arising from negligent, reckless, and intentional conduct on behalf of injury victims and their families. Gerson & Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers is widely recognized for aggressive legal advocacy for victims of serious and catastrophic injuries and wrongful death throughout Florida, across the United States, and worldwide. 

The firm is led by Senior Partner Philip M. Gerson, a former Board-Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, along with trial partners Nicholas Gerson and Ed Schwartz, forming one of Florida’s most respected personal injury and cruise ship trial practices. The firm’s efforts extend beyond the courtroom. Senior Partner Philip M. Gerson testified before Congress on maritime safety reforms. His testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee played a key role in helping enact federal legislation known as the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act, which was passed into federal law in 2010 by President Barrack Obama in order to protect cruise ship passengers from violent crime, including rape and sexual assault. The firm’s crime victim and negligent security practice is also a well-known core practice area holding negligent business owners and property owners responsible for failing to provide safety and security to prevent violent crime such as shooting and wrongful death cases. Senior Partner Philip M. Gerson served as the founding president of the National Crime Victim Bar Association advisory board located in Washington, DC.

Whether you are injured on land in a cruise ship accident, car accident, truck accident, or motorcycle crash, or are the victim of violent crime on land or at sea, Gerson & Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers provides aggressive and results-driven legal representation for victims and their families. The firm is one of the longest standing personal injury law firms in Florida.