Florida’s Fifth District Reaffirms Appellate Consensus on Assignment of Benefits Contract Requirements
The Kidwell Group LLC dba AQA aao John Fortner v Citizens Property, Case No. 5D2024-1843 (December 19, 2025)
Third DCA Clarifies Limits on Enforcing Attorney‑Fee Provisions in Pre‑Insolvency Settlements
Florida Insurance Guaranty Association v. Alfredo Ramos, No. 3D24-1003 (3d DCA January 14, 2026).
Third DCA Holds a Three-Year Delay is Too Long To Wait
Camacho v. Citizens Prop. Ins. Corp., No. 3D24-1974, 2026 WL 216413 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Jan. 28, 2026)
Insurer’s Failure to Raise Deficiency in Civil Remedy Notice at Appropriate Stage Amounts to Waiver of Argument at Summary Judgment
Frisco v State Farm Fla. Ins. Co., Case No. 2D2024-0464 (Fla 2nd DCA December 3, 2025).
The Office for Dispute Resolution’s Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2024 Details Due Process Filings, Bureau of Special Education Complaints
In late November 2025, the Office for Dispute Resolution (ODR) released its annual report for fiscal year 2024 (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025). In the report, the ODR provided detailed inform
Florida’s Sixth District Clarifies Limits of Binger and Strengthens Enforcement of Pretrial Deadlines
In a new opinion from the Sixth District Court of Appeal in Crecelius v. Rizzitano, 2026 WL 555031 (Fla. 6th DCA Feb. 27, 2026), the Sixth District held that Binger v. King Pest Control, 401 So. 2d 1310 (Fla.
unanimous verdict obtained in a medical malpractice matter in Bergen County, New Jersey
We received a unanimous defense verdict of behalf of our clients. The plaintiff was a seven-year-old girl who presented with a sacral aneurysmal bone cyst, an expansile, lytic lesion that destroyed sacral bone and was causing compression on her lower lumbar and sacral nerve roots. The plaintiff experienced the inability to control her bladder and bowel post-operatively, and had no sensation in her sex organs.
Florida Fourth DCA Clarifies Limits of Attorney Liability in Third‑Party Opinion Letters
The Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal recently affirmed that an attorney who prepares an opinion letter on behalf of the borrowers for the benefit of the lender in an arms-length transaction does not owe a duty to the lende
Legal Updates for Lawyers’ Professional Liability – RESULTS
Jack Slimm successfully represented our client, the board of trustees of a condo association, in a chancery action.