A committee of Florida's House of Representatives passed a proposal Wednesday that would change the way administrative law judges are appointed, a move that would give the governor more control over the process. ...read more
As litigation funding becomes more widespread, greater complexity and variability in funding deals is to be expected. All claimants should consider certain key questions on the economics of single-case funding when considering or comparing funding terms ...read more
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday revived the bulk of a suit alleging a faulty external defibrillator made by Zoll Services LLC failed to shock a woman’s heart after detecting a problem, saying that a lower court erred in finding her husband's ...read more
Accused Ponzi scheme architect Robert H. Shapiro asked a Florida federal judge late Wednesday to lift or modify a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission freeze on some $1 billion in assets under his control, citing limitations in a recent U.S. Supreme ...read more
A Florida appeals court on Thursday said a lower court was right to toss several dozen Engle progeny suits filed by two law firms on behalf of plaintiffs that “had been dead for many years,” just months after a panel of federal judges fined ...read more
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has hired two criminal defense attorneys from Dobson Davis & Smith and from Messer Caparello PA whose experience includes defending executives of Vanguard Fire and Casualty Co. in an alleged $20 million ...read more
A Florida federal judge has agreed to allow the court-appointed receiver for the failed Jay Peak EB-5 investment project to sink up to $67 million of immigrant investors’ money into a New York-based project that could give investors a chance to ...read more
The Sierra Club faced considerable skepticism Wednesday in the Florida Supreme Court as it argued that the state utility regulator granted approval for Florida Power & Light to transfer to its customers nearly $800 million in construction costs for ...read more
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday tossed, without prejudice, a proposed class’ claims that Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. put passengers in harm's way by not canceling a cruise as Hurricane Harvey bore down on Texas, ruling that their “laundry ...read more
A Florida federal judge expressed concern Wednesday about the attorneys' fees requested in settlements worth more than $702 million between Honda, Nissan and a class of vehicle owners who sued the car manufacturers over the cost of replacing their ...read more
A three-judge Eleventh Circuit panel on Wednesday affirmed a verdict for supermarket chain Publix in a slip-and-fall suit, rejecting the injured woman and her health care company's argument that the lower court made errors during the litigation. ...read more
A Florida chiropractic clinic fought Tuesday to keep Foley & Lardner LLP as its counsel in a malpractice suit alleging the clinic's former attorney David Oppenheim decamped with sensitive documents, calling Bock Hatch Lewis & Oppenheim LLC's ...read more
Three models, including two former Playboy playmates, are seeking several million dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed in Florida state court against Tampa strip club Deja Vu for its alleged use of pirated images of them to promote its business. ...read more
Given the operational and security risks involved, and the substantial digital asset values transacted, the rise of distributed ledger technology and smart contracts will create new opportunities and responsibilities for transactional lawyers, say attorneys ...read more
A whistleblower’s False Claims Act suit against health software company Epic Systems fails “the most basic test” for alleging fraud, a Florida federal judge said Tuesday as he permanently disposed of her “woefully deficient” ...read more
The former executive chairman of Perry Ellis International Inc. on Tuesday lobbed a $430 million offer to take the company he helped found private, citing discomfort with how the current board is managing the company and the turbulent nature of the retail ...read more
A Florida federal judge denied Walmart's bid to transfer to his court a putative class action by cellphone owners mistakenly robocalled by a Florida law firm collecting unpaid shoplifting debts for Walmart, ruling that the retail giant failed to follow ...read more
Forging ahead in its bid to enforce a $15 million arbitration award over an acquisition gone bad, Australia's Cardno Ltd. asked a Florida federal judge to enter a default judgment against one of four owners of an Ecuadoran engineering firm, even though ...read more
Law firms claim they create client teams to improve service. Clients aren’t fooled, describing these initiatives as “thinly veiled sales campaigns.” Until firms and client teams begin to apply a number of principles consistently, they will continue to ...read more
Former NFL player Monty Grow was convicted Monday by a Florida federal jury of receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks to steer patients to a compounding pharmacy as part of a $40 million scheme to charge Tricare for expensive, unnecessary drugs. ...read more
Cigna and others cannot challenge an arbitral decision forcing them to attend a hearing in a dispute over a $25 million class settlement's distribution, because the arbitration is still happening, a health care providers group told the Eleventh Circuit ...read more
A Florida federal court on Monday ordered Miami-based International Aerospace Group to return to a British Virgin Islands-based-company $4.1 million that was kept after a deal for seven airplane jet engines was halted because of U.S. government concerns ...read more
NBC Universal asked a Florida federal judge Monday to force the ex-business partner of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Melissa Gorga to arbitrate her $30 million defamation claims against Gorga, NBC and the show's executive producer ...read more
A Florida federal judge on Monday tossed, for now, a proposed class action accusing Ford Motor Co. of misrepresenting that a type of Mustang was suitable for the racetrack, saying the 17 named plaintiffs haven’t stated where they purchased the vehicles ...read more
In U.S. v. Parnell, the Eleventh Circuit recently upheld the longest criminal sentences ever imposed in a food safety case. The court's opinion underlines the abiding significance of the criminal sanction within the food safety landscape, say Robert ...read more