Keith M. Carter

Tampa, florida

Biography Overview

Born in Starke Florida in 1959. Mr. Carter spent his entire life and legal career in Florida. In 1981, he earned a Bachelor of Science from The Florida State University College of Business with a major in finance. He graduated with honors from Stetson University of College of Law in 1985. From 1985 through 2001, Mr. Carter’s practice consisted of general insurance defense with a focus on automobile insurance law, commercial transportation, products liability and professional liability. He was a founding partner of Mitchel and Carter, P.A., a shareholder and managing director of the Tampa firm of Shackleford Farrior Stallings and Evans (founded in 1907) and ended his defense career as an attorney and shareholder of Gray, Harris, Robinson, Shackleford, Farrior (now Gray Robinson).

In 2002, Mr. Carter joined the Tampa office of the largest plaintiff’s injury law firm in the United States, Morgan and Morgan. His current role with the Tampa office is to serve as trial counsel on cases involving general negligence, medical malpractice and unfair debt collection practices. In the last decade, he achieved eight separate verdicts in excess of $1 million dollars and his total damage verdicts exceed $80 million dollars.

He is board certified by the Florida Bar Association since 1994, AV rated by Martindale Hubbell since 1995, regularly included on the list of Florida Super Lawyers and Florida Legal Elite. He is an Eagle member of the Florida Justice Association.

Practice Areas

Medical Malpractice

Recent Successes

$1,200,000.00 Verdict	Robert Levine & Barbara Bloom vs. IDS Property Casualty Insurance Company	Car Accidents	2019
$3,383,092.74 Verdict	Joel Capote v. JVS Contracting, Inc.	Truck Accidents	2018
$563,627.00 Verdict	Minnear vs. City of Arcadia	Construction Accidents	2018
$8,570,000.00 Verdict	Hadley vs. Terwilliger	Medical Malpractice	2007
$6,684,673.00 Verdict	A.E. and M.E., individually, and as personal representatives of the deceased's estate v. Thomas Umstead, M.D. & Florida Women's Care	Medical Malpractice	2018
$365,000.00 Verdict	Chanda Brown v. Traveler Indemnity Co. of Connecticut	Car Accidents	2017
$418,000.00 Verdict	Jack A Reding and Laura Reding vs. Congo River Golf and Expedition C. - Clearwater, Shawn Sumpter	Premises Liability	2017
$222,403.00 Verdict	Patricia Munoz vs. Kenneth M. Rossman and Lara Manning	Car Accidents	2016
$1,390,018.00 Verdict	Rachel Pandelo v. Darren Edmonds, D.C., Bee Ridge Chiropractic Center, LLC, d/b/a Bee Ridge Chiropractic Center	Medical Malpractice	2015
$500,000.94 Verdict	John Deturo v. James P. Hines, Jr. as Personal Representative of the Estate of Svend V. Rasmussen	Car Accidents	2016

Robert Levine & Barbara Bloom vs. IDS Property Casualty Insurance Company

$1,200,000.00

Verdict - 2019
Joel Capote v. JVS Contracting, Inc.

$3,383,092.74

Verdict - 2018
Minnear vs. City of Arcadia

$563,627.00

Verdict - 2018