Mr. Richman represents clients in complex product liability, personal injury and commercial litigation matters. He has extensive experience representing manufacturers in state and federal courts involving claims of personal injury and property damage related to alleged product defects, including motor vehicles, consumer products and industrial tools and equipment. Mr. Richman also has significant experience representing clients in other types of personal injury matters including premises liability and motor vehicle collisions, as well as commercial litigation, including contract, business disputes and alleged unfair trade practices. For over 10 years, Mr. Richman has served as national counsel defending property damage and personal injury claims related to fires caused by an alleged product defect. Mr. Richman also serves as regional counsel for a major tire manufacturer overseeing catastrophic personal injury litigation in six states in the Southeast.
Toole, M. Gary
Gary Toole serves as national, regional and local counsel for domestic and foreign product manufacturers and excess insurance carriers in catastrophic injury cases throughout the United States. He has served as lead trial counsel in trials involving catastrophic injury cases in California, New Mexico, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Florida. He also assists domestic manufacturers in coordinating discovery throughout the United States and with their foreign subsidiaries.
Wiggins, Michael J.
In December 2024, he announced that he was taking Senior Status with the newly formed McDonald Toole Richman & Correnti, P.A. Michael Wiggins was a founding member and senior partner of McDonald Toole Wiggins, P.A. He is counsel to manufacturers and corporations in the U.S. and internationally, and his litigation practice is devoted entirely to defending large damage and catastrophic injury cases for the automotive, consumer products, industrial equipment and medical device industries. He is a nationally-recognized trial lawyer that has defended and tried cases in over 20 states and federal jurisdictions around the country. He is frequently retained as lead counsel in mass tort, class action and pattern litigation around the country, and he has extensive experience managing local counsel in the role as regional or national counsel. Most recently, he has led or co-led trial teams in cases tried to verdict involving claims exceeding $100 million and is currently leading teams that are scheduled to defend catastrophic cases in Florida, Colorado, Indiana, and Nevada.
He has been listed or named to “Best Lawyers in America”, “Florida Super Lawyers”, “Florida’s Legal Elite” and Orlando Magazine’s “Best Lawyers” for 15 consecutive years dating back to 2010.
His most important work is as an advocate for children with cancer, and he is the co-founder and Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cannonball Kids cancer Foundation (“CKc”), a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation dedicated to funding medical clinical research. To date, the Foundation has funded in excess of $5 million in clinical trials for cancer found only in children. He is a frequent speaker on the reason and need for funding of research. He lives in Orlando with his wife, Melissa, and their five children: Olivia, Cannon, Arran James, Gray and Charlie.