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Aviation

Coordinating Discovery in Mass Tort Litigation

In mass tort litigation, such as personal injury suits arising out of airline crashes or...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Florida’s Fourth DCA Upholds Sworn Proof of Loss Requirement

Insurance companies in Florida receive thousands of property damage claims each year. To expedite the...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Homeowners Insurance Assignments of Benefits May Have Finally Met Their Match

Few issues have been so hotly disputed in recent years as the issue of what...

Professional Liability

Florida Supreme Court Denies School District Immunity Under the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act for Failure to Use or Attempt to Use an Available Automatic Defibrillator

The Florida Supreme Court recently held that the Lee County School Board was not immune...

Casualty Litigation

Surveillance of the Incident: What Time Is the Right Time for Production?

Originally published in the Summer 2015 Issue of Trial Advocate Quarterly, attorneys Michael Forte and...

Casualty Litigation

Fourth District Court of Appeal Recognizes the Protection of Incident and Safety Reports Under the Work Product Doctrine

Rumberger attorney David Marsey was published in the summer 2015 issue of the Preferred News....

Commercial Litigation

Business Entities Have Standing to Bring Claims Under the FDUTPA

The Fourth District Court of Appeals recently held that a business entity does not have...

Commercial Litigation

The FTC’s 1980 Definition of Unfair Trade Practice Applies to FDUTPA Actions

The Third District Court of Appeals recently held, on a matter of first impression, that...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Court Imposes Unlimited Exposure on PIP Insurer

In Spaid v. Integon Indemnity Corp., Case No. 1D13-2343 (Fla. 1st DCA June 18, 2014),...

Employment and Labor

Florida’s Daubert Jurisprudence Gradually Continues to Evolve: First District Decision Emphasizes Timeliness of Daubert Motions & Other Nuances

On May 29, 2015, Florida’s First District Court of Appeal issued a per curiam opinion...