MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A Pet Supermarket customer who signed up for a contest to win free pet food for a year can't sue the company for the seven texts he received after.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A man who waited nearly 20 years to sue the Catholic Church over his alleged abuse by a priest can proceed with claims the church committed intentional infliction of emotional distress even though his negligence claim is barred by the statute of limitations, a Florida appeals court ruled.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A man who refused to pay a contingency fee to Boies Schiller and challenged an arbitrator’s decision requiring him to do so lost in court, with a Florida appeals court agreeing with the arbitrator who called him “the ultimate salesman” willing to say what he needed to save money.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - Firefighters who lost their jobs and sued the City of Miami and its fire chief for allegedly linking two events - penises drawn on a Black colleague's family photos and the later placement of a string resembling a noose on one of the pictures - had no case, an appeals court ruled, citing the absolute immunity afforded government officials for actions taken “within the scope of their duties.”
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Property owners did not have a duty to motorists to maintain the areas next to nearby roads, a Florida appeals court has ruled.
MIAMI – A Boca Raton law firm will get the opportunity to argue against a $17,150 penalty imposed on it for trying to hold a lawyer in indirect criminal contempt for releasing the terms of a settlement.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A Florida appeals court reversed a $42.5 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, ruling the trial judge should have excused a juror who said she believed cigarettes are addictive.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A Florida man who was paralyzed from the neck down after spinal surgery has sued his lawyers at Morgan & Morgan, blaming them for botching a lawsuit against the company that made an implant that damaged his spinal cord.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Philip Morris can’t be sued by a man who alleged his laryngeal cancer who alleged the company’s marketing led him to believe cigarettes were getting healthier.
The state has always seen a high number of cases involving personal injury protection litigation and it could see a surge in the near future because of recent court rulings.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A Florida appeals court has reversed a lower court’s ruling to restore more than $400,000 in sanctions ordered against a former employee of Shaquille O’Neal and his lawyer who pursued a racketeering and invasion of privacy lawsuit against the basketball star despite evidence it was a shakedown.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Royal Caribbean Cruises might yet shrink a $20 million verdict against it in a lawsuit brought by an employee whose hand was crushed in a door and subsequently complained of chronic pain but has since been filmed using it to perform everyday activities.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A Florida appeals court reinstated the personal injury verdict a bodybuilder won despite having withheld until the week before trial evidence that he’d been treated by an orthopedic surgeon for the same type of injury he blamed on a car accident.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Hearsay about whether the victim of a fatal workplace accident was wearing head phones was improperly admitted, a Florida appeals court has ruled in giving the man’s widow a new shot at her lawsuit.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – A security company at a Florida long-term care facility is not responsible for the injuries of a visitor shot by an 87-year-old man.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Counsel for a defendant blamed for a man’s alleged 10-foot fall claimed he had not called the fire department – a mistake that will grant the plaintiff a new trial.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – R.J. Reynolds has defeated claims for punitive damages in one of the so-called Engle cases in Florida in which plaintiffs can blame tobacco companies for health problems.
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs attorneys won’t be able to move forward with a lawsuit against a law firm that defended an insurance company by disclosing what was alleged to be confidential information.
An appeals court determined that an expert opinion isn’t needed when a lawyer sues a client for breach of contract, so it reversed a previous ruling that denied a law firm’s claim for unpaid attorney fees.
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