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Joshua C. Canton, managing partner of the firm's Tallahassee, Florida office, along with Justin B. Hales, an associate in the firm’s Tallahassee, Florida office, recently prevailed on a motion to dismiss with prejudice wherein Plaintiff filed a suit in 2017 and sought to add their client as a Defendant in 2023.  Mr. Canton and Mr. Hales successfully argued the statute of limitations had expired and the naming of the client as a Defendant did not relate back to the original filing of the Complaint in 2017.

Rod C. Lundy, a partner, and Luc H. Adeclat, an associate, both of our Orlando office, recently prevailed on a motion for final summary judgment. In this matter, Plaintiff alleged our funeral home client negligently arranged and conducted a funeral procession such that a co-defendant driver in the procession went through a red light and hit Plaintiff’s vehicle. Specifically,  Plaintiff alleged the accident occurred because the funeral home failed to fully instruct those in the procession of the traffic rules outlined in Fla. Stat. 316.1974. 

Tallahassee attorneys Michael J. Bonfanti, partner and Katherine L. Moran, associate, recently prevailed on a motion for summary judgment on a non-catastrophic homeowners claim in Pasco County where they argued the mold testing services provided by the Plaintiff were not covered by the applicable policy of insurance, and as a result coverage was not appropriate. 

Conroy Simberg partners Dale Friedman, Hollywood and Michael Kast, Orlando defended a putative class action lawsuit where Plaintiff, The Cook and The Cork, Inc. sued Defendant, Acosta Tractors, Inc. for negligence arising out of two separate gas line strikes occurring on November 15, 2021 and May 13, 2022 while widening Wiles Road as part of a Broward County road improvement project.  Plaintiff alleged the gas line strikes caused at least 120 businesses to lose gas service to operate their businesses.  

Cris Casal, partner, and Glenn Gunsten, associate, from the Fort Myers office obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a grading subcontractor in a defense and indemnity jury trial on a construction defect claim in Collier County, Florida. The general contractor filed a third-party claim in which it sued all of the subcontractors whose scope of work was purportedly implicated in the underlying suit with the homeowner. The lawsuit was the culmination of six years of litigation in which all of the named subcontractors settled their claims against the general contractor prior to trial, except for the grading subcontractor. The jury deliberated for slightly more than an hour before returning with a defense verdict in favor of the grading subcontractor. The grading subcontractor will now seek to collect attorney’s fees and costs stemming from a rejected Proposal for Settlement that was served more than four years ago.