Florida Appeals Court Slashes $600,000 Attorney Fee on $52,000 Claim
Florida may have one of the most generous attorney-fee mechanisms in the country, sometimes resulting in plaintiff's fees that are several times greater
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Florida may have one of the most generous attorney-fee mechanisms in the country, sometimes resulting in plaintiff's fees that are several times greater
Florida may have one of the most generous attorney-fee mechanisms in the country, sometimes resulting in plaintiff's fees that are several times greater
Florida restaurants have had little success in recent lawsuits against Lloyd's of London over insurance coverage for shutdowns during the COVID-19
In Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London v. NL Industries, Inc., the Appellate Division held that exclusions for expected or intended injury required a finding that NL actually expected or intended the resulting harm; not merely have knowledge of an increased risk of harm.
Last month, California state and federal courts revisited fortuity issues in two decisions that show how the occurrence requirement and the California Insurance Code's prohibition on coverage for an insured's willful acts can be exceedingly difficult to apply to lawsuits alleging novel legal theories, say Jodi Green and Sophia von Bergen at Miller Nash.