W. Hampton Keen specializes in products liability and catastrophic injury cases throughout Florida and across the United States, having handled cases out of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, among others. Many of the cases he handles involve design and manufacturing defects, as well as complex liability situations. During his career, Mr. Keen has achieved numerous multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients.
Hampton has litigated successfully against almost every international automotive and tire manufacturer. Having litigated the cutting edge issues in the product liability field - from claims against Ford and Firestone for the recall of the ATX and Wilderness tires in the early 2000s to the sudden unintended acceleration cases against Toyota of today - Hampton's goal is to protect the consumer and work toward the recall of any product that is unsafe and unreasonably dangerous.
In October 2013, Hampton obtained an $11 million dollar jury verdict for his clients against Continental Tire.
Personal
Hampton, his wife, and three children reside in West Palm Beach, Florida. Both Hampton and his wife are fifth generation Floridians.
Legal Victories
Hampton handled the briefing and oral arguments for the trial team that convinced several Florida Courts to allow a claim for punitive damages against Chrysler for designing and manufacturing a 15-passenger van that the firm argued the company knew was prone to rollovers. These court rulings were the first in the country on this issue.
Ultimately, Chrysler stopped manufacturing the van altogether and adopted a safer design in its similar vehicles.
In 2008, Hampton represented a family who lost their son in a car accident wherein Hampton contended the seat belt was defective and caused their son's untimely death. The case went to trial against Mitsubishi Motors and a jury awarded his clients $11 million in damages; the verdict was affirmed in December 2010 by the appellate court.
Although Hampton typically handles cases involving wrongful death or severe injury, Hampton earned a jury verdict of $513,000 for a client whom the defense argued had only soft-tissue injuries,  as he had no surgery at the time of the trial four years after the accident.
More recently, after Hampton selected a jury in a California trial involving a trucking accident, which resulted in a client sustaining a severe brain injury, the case was resolved for a confidential amount that was more than quadruple the pre-trial offer.
