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In an issue that might ultimately have to be sorted out by the Florida Supreme Court, an appeals court has sided with a Collier County homeowner in a dispute about a 2021 law that placed additional hurdles to filing lawsuits against property insurers.The ruling last week by a panel of the 6th District Court of Appeal dealt with whether part of the law could apply to policies issued before the law took effect. The panel agreed with arguments by attorneys for homeowner Rebecca Hughes, whose home s...

An appeals court sided with a homeowner in a dispute about a 2021 law that placed hurdles to filing lawsuits against property insurers.

The Legislature enacted a bill last year to create the Sixth District Court of Appeal based in Lakeland. Nine judges have been appointed to the court.

Here's what you need to know ahead of the 2022 general election for the Florida Supreme Court, appointed judges, and appeals court judges.

Voters should at least be heard on rental stabilitization measures. And they should consider voting early, to avoid missing their chance to be heard at all.

Here's what you need to know ahead of the 2022 general election for the Florida Supreme Court, appointed judges, and appeals court judges.

Theres one week to go before the Nov. 8 general election, and thousands of Marion residents already have voted by mail or at early voting sites.

Less than two weeks before Election Day, a divided appeals court has rejected an Orange County ballot measure aimed at imposing rent controls.

An Orange County circuit judge erred in allowing voters to weigh in on a proposed rent control ordinance, an appeal court has ruled.

Less than two weeks before Election Day, a divided appeals court has rejected an Orange County ballot measure aimed at imposing rent controls.