Conroy Simberg’s COVID-19 Response Team is here to help you navigate through all of your liability and workers’ compensation claims throughout the state of Florida and Georgia. Since our inception, Conroy Simberg has had response teams in place to assist our clients during times of crisis. Whether it be hurricanes or other global emergencies, our team has been ready to and able to assist our clients in all of their legal needs.

Our experienced attorneys have already defended COVID-19 related cases and continue to stay abreast of the ever-evolving legal landscape during this pandemic. As novel legal issues continue to emerge, our COVID-19 Response Team continues to stay on top of these trends in order to provide you with up-to-date legal guidance and opinions. All of our attorneys are available via email and cellphone at your convenience. Our cellphone numbers are on our website. As always, we are able to continue to provide the high-quality uninterrupted service our clients expect and deserve. 

In furtherance of these goals, we have procedures in place to ensure seamless communication regardless of where our employees are physically located. Our firm-wide computer system and paperless environment renders us ready, willing and able to continue to provide you with the same quality of service we have always provided and we are available to meet your needs.

In addition, we have and will continue to host webinars related to COVID-19 and its effect on the insurance industry in Florida and Georgia.

General Inquiries: 

 

Bruce F. Simberg
Direct Dial: (954) 518-1250
Cell Phone: (954) 907-7500
bsimberg@conroysimberg.com		 Scott D. Krevans
Direct Dial: (954) 518-1258
Cell Phone: (954) 993-3650
skrevans@conroysimberg.com

Nursing Home and Healthcare Defense:

COVID-19 is expected to cause a new wave of claims and lawsuits against those providing front line care, including physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health care agencies.  Conroy Simberg’s litigation team has the experience and resources to defend against these claims. 

Even though no health care provider could have specifically imagined or anticipated COVID-19, there will still be lawsuits alleging negligence in handling the response to the virus.  For example, Plaintiffs’ lawyers will argue that providers and facilities should have had emergency procedures in place to address any contagious disease, including COVID-19.  They will make the case that people died from COVID-19 because health care providers failed to isolate infected patients, did not test care providers, failed to clean and disinfect surfaces and equipment, and otherwise negligently failed to prevent patients from contracting the virus.  There will also be claims alleging that providers used the pandemic as an excuse to avoid providing continuity of care, thereby failing to diagnose diseases like cancer, or allowing known medical conditions to worsen. 

The litigation team at Conroy Simberg is prepared to defend health care providers when COVID-19 claims are inevitably brought.  The firm has a long history of successfully defending medical malpractice claims, as well as claims against long term care providers.  Many of the usual defenses to traditional claims will be available to health care providers facing COVID-19 claims, such as causation.  In addition, the federal government and many state governments have afforded health care providers some degree of liability immunity for those responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency.  Conroy Simberg’s team of litigators stands ready to use all available tools to protect and defend our front line health care providers when they are subject to COVID-19 claims and lawsuits.

Jonathan C. Abel
Direct Dial: (954) 518-1202
Cell Phone: (954) 478-7677
jabel@conroysimberg.com

General Liability and Insurance Defense:

COVID-19 will undoubtedly trigger a new and uncharted wave of litigation in the general and premises liability areas.  Conroy Simberg’s litigators have the experience and resources necessary to assist you in evaluating and defending these claims. 

We anticipate that the Plaintiff’s bar will attempt to argue that properties and establishments failed to anticipate and put procedures in place to safeguard invitees from contagious diseases, including COVID-19.  In addition, we foresee that, in an attempt to establish liability for this novel pandemic, they may assert that property and business owners failed to follow CDC guidelines in maintaining their properties and/or in operating their businesses. 

The Conroy Simberg team is ready to defend property and business owners from COVID-19 claims.  In addition to standard tort defenses, our litigation team is focused on several key areas of defense to COVID-19 claims, including: (1) whether there is a duty on the part of the property/business owner to protect invitees against a pandemic, especially where, as here, the government and scientist’s guidance is unclear and at times, inconsistent; (2) whether the Plaintiff will be able to demonstrate how and where the Plaintiff may have contracted the virus and (3) whether the Plaintiff’s expert(s) can withstand Daubert scrutiny.  Conroy Simberg’s litigation team stands ready to use all available tools to protect and defend you against COVID-19 claims and lawsuits.

 

Michael Kraft
Direct Dial: (813) 209-2798
Cell Phone: (813) 317-5500
mkraft@conroysimberg.com		 Hinda Klein
Direct Dial: (954) 518-1248
Cell Phone: (954) 303-1907
 hklein@conroysimberg.com
Miles A. McGrane, IV
Direct Dial: (954) 518-1392
Cell Phone: (305) 213-3351
mmcgrane@conroysimberg.com		 Michael J. Bonfanti
Direct Dial: (850) 383-9103
Cell Phone: (850) 508-8171
mbonfanti@conroysimberg.com

Property and Liability Coverage:
 

Robert S. Horwitz
Direct Dial: (561) 478-6047
Cell Phone: (561) 789-2500
rhorwitz@conroysimberg.com

 Workers' Compensation Defense:
  

Esther Zapata Ruderman
Direct Dial: (561) 478-6006
Cell Phone: (561) 310-5125
eruderman@conroysimberg.com  

Additional Practice Areas: 

  • Insurance (Coverage B)
  • Restaurant and Premises Liability Defense
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Business Interruption Insurance 
  • Directors and Officers Coverage

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