August 2013 – A business owned by Miami nightclub owner Clive Seecomar has been saddled with a judgment of $60 million for actions related to a cellular telephone recycling business. The judgment is based on activities occurring in 2008 around the time that Seecomar was Miami’s man- of-the-hour after revitalizing the trendy Karu & Y […]
MELISSA MONTOYA, MMONTOYA@NEWS-PRESS.COM The mother of a Collier County teen who was injured in a car crash more than 10 years ago was rendered speechless when a jury awarded her $60 million in damages in court on Friday. Joan Antonuccio’s daughter, Angela Crowe, was paralyzed after a 2003 car crash in which she was a […]
By: Jacob Carpenter At the end of an emotionally taxing trial, during which she wept through testimony about her severely injured daughter, Joan Antonuccio couldn’t comprehend what just happened. A jury had awarded her $60 million. “It’s just like I heard it, but I was still so drained from crying,” said Antonuccio, a 54-year-old bartender […]
Bart Jansen, USA TODAY A British Airways plane’s collision with a drone while landing at Heathrow Airport has renewed calls for stricter regulation in the U.S., where more than 150 airliners reported close sightings of drones in the last 18 months, including eight in the last two weeks of January. “This is a real issue,” […]
A British Airways mid-air collision with a drone on Sunday has led to increased scrutiny over the regulations involved in piloting drones. In the United States alone, more than 150 planes have reported close sightings with drones in the last 18 months, with eight reports in the last two weeks of January alone. “There is […]
BY DEBORA LIMA TotalBank has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Century Bank and U.S. Century Bank CEO Luis de la Aguilera. The lawsuit alleges that de la Aguilera, who stepped down as CEO of TotalBank in December 2015 amid widescale layoffs, used confidential information he gained during his 15 years at TotalBank to poach TotalBank […]
By Will Brinson April 7, 2015UMV:7,658,510FormerBuccaneersandGiantskicker Lawrence Tynes is suing the Bucs for $20 million in Broward County Court in Florida claiming MRSA ended his NFL career. The lawsuit, which essentially claims Tynes lost piles and piles of cash as a result of the Buccaneers lack of sanitary working conditions, is a “negligence and premises […]
Co-pilot’s secrecy wouldn’t necessarily exonerate Lufthansa, lawyers say By Robert Wall Updated March 29, 2015 5:05 p.m. ET LONDON—The unusual circumstances surrounding the Germanwings crash won’t necessarily free the airline and its insurers from claims of negligence, aviation lawyers said. Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Germanwings’ parent company, and its insurer will likely still face large legal […]
By Natalia Zea, March 26, 2015 MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The horrific and deliberate crash of the Germanwings flight into the French Alps is on the minds of travelers as they get ready to board flights…including hundreds on Lufthansa Airlines, which owns the carrier of the doomed flight. “It’s really terrible,” said German national Eva Deck. […]
By Carolina Bolado Law360, Miami — Three Miami trial and class action law firms have made a $1 million gift to the University of Miami School of Law to support scholarships and fund an annual forum on class action law that the attorneys hope will help make South Florida a hub for complex mass actions […]
