By RON HURTIBISE Owners of Fort Lauderdale restaurant IT! Italy Ristorante Café & Bar filed suit Monday against global insurance giant Chubb Limited and its subsidiary Westchester Surplus Lines over the insurer’s failure to pay a business COVID-19-related interruption claim. The suit by the restaurant’s parent company, Cafe International Holding Company LLC, is an opening salvo […]
By Nathan Hale Law360 (April 20, 2020, 6:11 PM EDT) — Chubb Ltd. was accused Monday of wrongly denying business interruption claims arising from closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in a shuttered South Florida restaurant’s proposed class action filed in federal court. The owner of IT! Italy Ristorante Café & Bar in downtown Fort Lauderdale, […]
By Raychel Lean | April 21, 2020 at 02:02 PM “If we are unable to prevail in this particular case with such a clear policy, that means every insurer will get off the hook and avoid meeting its obligations, even though it collected premiums for years and years,” said Podhurst Orseck partner Steven Marks.” Stephen N. Zack of […]
By Carolina Bolado Law360 (April 28, 2020, 5:53 PM EDT) — A Florida beauty salon hit insurer HDI Global Specialty SE with a proposed class suit on Monday over the insurer’s alleged failure to cover losses and expenses the business incurred after it was forced to shutter due to the coronavirus pandemic. Atma Beauty, a full-service […]
BY DAVID J. NEAL A Fort Lauderdale restaurant’s federal class action lawsuit says its comprehensive insurance coverage includes the losses it has suffered during the novel coronavirus restaurant dining shutdown, but the insurer won’t pay. The lawsuit involves IT! italy Ristorante and Bar, 500 E. Las Olas Blvd., insurance company Westchester Surplus Lines and Westchester’s […]
“Even the most safe and attentive drivers will not be able to avoid the repercussions from this particular defect because it malfunctions through no fault of the driver,” said Lea P. Bucciero of Podhurst Orseck in Miami, who’s teamed with Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid to represent plaintiffs bringing a putative class action lawsuit against Mazda Motor […]
As the two-year mark of the Donald Trump presidency passes, data on the effects of the administration’s deregulatory efforts is beginning to emerge. But even as trends become identifiable, South Florida litigators and environmental activists can’t seem to agree on exactly what they portend. The Washington Post reported Jan. 24 that civil penalties levied against […]
The Podhurst Orseck partner is representing the families of victims of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in several lawsuits. By Zach Schlein | November 01, 2019 at 01:11 PM Stephen Rosenthal is the rare jack-of-all-trades who might actually be the master of them all. Long before he moved to Miami and joined […]
TALLAHASSEE The Florida Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in the dispute over how much the Broward County School Board can be forced to pay to parents and victims of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The court is being asked to determine if the mass shooting was a “single incident occurrence” […]
By Ashley Portero – Reporter, South Florida Business Journal A South Florida circuit board distributor that claimed a Chinese manufacturer knowingly committed fraud and engaged in unlawful conduct to hijack some of its clients emerged victorious in a recent court battle. Fort Lauderdale-based Circuitronix, was able to pursue the case due to a contract provision […]
