Jonah M. Wolfson

Call the Fort Myers office about a wreck on I-75 or a fall inside a store on Cleveland Avenue, and Jonah Wolfson may be one of the lawyers on your file. Running the firm has not taken him off cases. He checks in with clients about how their recovery is going, works through hospital records and the police report, puts the insurance adjuster on notice in writing, and questions drivers, property managers, and other witnesses under oath.

If the insurer will not make a fair offer, he takes the claim to court. A lawsuit over an injury in Lee County is usually filed in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, at the Lee County Justice Center on Monroe Street in downtown Fort Myers, and he prepares each one expecting that a jury may end up hearing it.

Jonah knows the insurance side of these cases because that is where he started. A Miami native, he joined the Florida Bar in 2001 and spent his first three years at a Miami litigation firm defending insurers. Since 2005 he has represented injured people only. His courtroom experience is older than his license: interning with the Cook County Public Defender in Chicago, he tried cases all the way to a verdict while still a law student.

Miami Beach voters elected him to the City Commission twice, and he served from 2007 to 2015 as chair of its Finance, Land Use, Sustainability, and Flooding committees. The Florida Justice Association counts him as an Eagle Member.

His name on an article here means he has worked that kind of claim and checked that the answer is the one he would give a Southwest Florida family sitting across the table from him.