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Florida civil procedure is the rulebook that governs every lawsuit in the state—and it rewards the side that knows it. “Civil litigation” is something of
A charging order is a court-issued remedy that allows a judgment creditor to reach a debtor’s economic interest in a limited liability company. Rather than
In Florida, the statute of limitations defense is not a “gotcha” issue the court will fix on its own; it is an affirmative defense that
In a Florida premises liability appeal, McWhorter v. Event Services America, the Second District Court of Appeal ruled that while Defendant had no duty to
Florida trial courts awarding attorney’s fees must make specific Rowe findings—the reasonable hourly rate and the number of hours reasonably expended—or the award will not
In a Florida premises liability appeal turning on actual or constructive notice, Eckert Realty Corp. v. Strazzeri, No. 4D2023-2130 (Fla. 4th DCA 2024), the Fourth
Personal liability for supervisors is the central issue in Jones v. Vasilias. Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal held that individual supervisors and managers can
The SAVE Plan is, for now, dead. On February 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed and broadened a preliminary
A good faith proposal for settlement is the price of admission to Florida’s offer of judgment statute — and in Hunt v. Lightfoot, Florida’s First
Florida’s 2023 tort reform package rewrote how a jury hears evidence of medical bills — but it did not rewrite every case already on file.
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