News & Events

Jeff Carter and Rod Lundy, partners in the firm’s Orlando office, obtained a defense verdict in a premises case in Alachua County, Florida.  The case was tried on liability only as the defense previously convinced the court to bifurcate the case.

We are pleased to announce that our 2019 Fall e-Newsletter has been published. Please take a few minutes to read it as it contains information on new case law updates, including topics on liability, workers’ compensation, first-party property and coverage, trucking, medical malpractice and many more. The e-Newsletter also includes firm successes secured by Conroy Simberg, additional news and notes and firm announcements.  

Yesterday, the Fourth District Court of Appeal issued an important opinion relating to the Graves Amendment, finding that it applies to automobile dealerships that loan vehicles to their customers who have their cars in for service.  

In Manor House, LLC Ocean View LLC and Merritt, LLC v. Citizens Property Ins. Corp., Case No. 5D17-2841, May 31, 2019, the Fifth District Court of Appeal held that where Citizens allegedly breached its policy with the insureds by failing to pay the undisputed amount of the insureds’ claim and otherwise failing to properly adjust the insureds’ loss, the insured could seek consequential damages, over and above the insurance benefits the carrier allegedly owed.  This was so despite the fact that Citizens is statutorily immune from suit for bad faith.  

This morning, the newly reconstituted Florida Supreme Court has done an about-face on the issue of whether the Frye or Daubert standards govern the admissibility of evidence in Florida. 

In 2013, the Florida legislature adopted the Daubert standard of admissibility, which is narrower than the Frye standard, which only excluded new or novel scientific techniques lacking general acceptance.  Under the amended statute 90.702: