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Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Interpleader: Court Holds Plan Benefits Must Be Distributed to Beneficiary and Insured’s Estate May Not Assert Claims Against Plan Trustee Regarding Distribution of the Death Benefits

Originally published by DRI’s Life, Health and Disability Committee in The ERISA Report, Volume 13,...

Government and Administrative

Finally, Public Agency Does Not Have to Pay Media's Attorneys' Fees under Florida Public Records Act

In State Attorney’s Office of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, et al., v. Cable News Network,...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Hurricane Irma Damaged My Kitchen or Did It?

Originally published in Strength Through the Storm, by Demotech, Inc and Security First Insurance Company,...

Professional Liability

What to Do When Faced With a Complaint Against Your Professional License

This article appeared in the "Consult the Counsel" special advertising section in the Orlando Business...

Commercial Litigation

Revisiting The Fax Provision: Technology’s Impact On TCPA

Originally published in Law360, Expert Analysis, July 24, 2018 There has never been a more...

Commercial Litigation

Technological Change As A Defense to TCPA Fax Class Actions

In Scoma Chiropractic, P.A. v. Dental Equities, LLC, MasterCard International, Inc., et al., Judge Steele...

Professional Liability

Failure to Warn: Fourth DCA Invalidates Entire Arbitration Provision for Failure to Satisfy Fee Dispute Rule

In Owens v. Corrigan,[1] the Fourth District Court of Appeal held that an arbitration provision...

Commercial Litigation

Protecting Your Business: The Basics of Non-Compete Agreements

This article appeared in the "Consult the Counsel" special advertising section in the Orlando Business...

Employment and Labor

Did the Supreme Court Kick the Cake Down the Road in Masterpiece Cakeshop?

Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd., et al. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission By a majority of 7–2,...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Court Construes Pre-existing Condition Exclusion to Avoid Illusory Disability Coverage

Originally published in The Voice of the Defense Bar “ERISA Report,” Volume 13, Issue 1,...