News & Events

Seth Goldberg, a partner in our Hollywood office, recently obtained a Defense Verdict in a slip and fall case in Broward County, Florida. Plaintiff alleged he slipped and fell down the exterior stairs, in the rain, at the apartment complex where he had lived for over a year before the fall. The Defendants owned and maintained the property. The Plaintiff testified that he did not hold onto the available handrail as he descended the steps. Plaintiff alleged his fall was caused by the exterior light that illuminated the stairwell being out on the evening of the fall and the construction of the steps violated the applicable building codes when they were built in 1990. 

Diane H. Tutt, an appellate partner in the firm’s Hollywood office, recently argued an appeal in a wrongful death case in which Dale L. Friedman, a partner in the firm’s Hollywood Office, had obtained summary judgment.  The case was brought by the personal representative (mother) of an intellectually disabled adult who was residing in a group home and was struck and killed by a vehicle as he walked across a roadway to get a snack. The Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed summary judgment for our client.  

Lauren McEndree and Seth Goldberg, both partners in our Hollywood office, recently obtained a Defense Verdict in a slip and fall case in Broward County, Florida. Plaintiff alleged he slipped and fell at the insured’s shopping plaza resulting in a fractured radius and ulna for which surgery was required. During the course of discovery, plaintiff changed the version of where he fell and what caused him to fall. At trial, he changed his story yet again. Damages were not contested.

Cristobal Casal, Jesse Dyer, and Jason Axley, in the firm’s Pensacola office, recently prevailed on a motion for final summary judgment in a premises liability case. The plaintiff alleged that the restaurant adjacent to the public sidewalk where she tripped was liable for her injuries. The court agreed that summary judgment was appropriate because the restaurant did not exercise control over the sidewalk sufficient to give rise to a legal duty of care.

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.