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A Florida couple told an Eleventh Circuit panel on Friday that a $200,000 settlement over catastrophic injuries the husband sustained after slipping on ice doesn't absolve State Farm from paying insurance benefits, saying that the Medicare Secondary Payer Act obligates the insurer to pay for ongoing medical care.
A group of retail investors urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to revive their antitrust lawsuit against Robinhood Markets Inc. and Citadel Securities, saying the investors have sufficiently alleged the two companies conspired to restrict trades in 2021 and made it harder to switch to a competitor in the no-fee brokerage market.
A pelvic mesh company that was ordered to pay $2.5 million following a product liability jury trial told an Eleventh Circuit panel Tuesday that a patient lawsuit alleging physical injuries was time-barred, arguing that her problems were diagnosed more than four years before she filed her complaint.
The convicted ex-chief financial officer of the Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas told a Florida federal judge Wednesday that he shouldn't spend the rest of his life in prison for bank fraud because he wasn't the conspiracy's leader and the loss amount was $3.4 million — far less than what the government says.
A federal judge on Friday tossed an ex-police chief's wrongful termination lawsuit, agreeing with the city of Fort Lauderdale that the former chief can't claim a breach of contract when he was employed at will, and holding that officials didn't violate the law in firing him over allegedly discriminatory hiring and promotions.