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On September 28, 2011, the Third District Court of Appeals of Florida in  Rey v. Philip Morris, Inc., ___ So. 3d ___ , 2011 WL 4467387 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011), reversed a Miami-Dade County [...]

On February 22, WSH Partners Matthew H. Mandel, Jamie A. Cole and Laura K. Wendell  obtained a favorable en banc decision on behalf of the City of Boca Raton in a wrongful [...]

On February 28, a group of Scott Rothstein’s money-losing investors settled a dispute with Gibraltar Bank & Trust for $10 million in cash and an additional share in bad faith insurance [...]

In a ruling that is certain to impact where consumers can bring private lawsuits against telemarketing companies, the Supreme Court of the United States recently decided that claims under the [...]

On January 20, 2012, WSH obtained a complete defense victory for a major insurer in a case involving a unique section of Florida’s Workers’ Compensation Law. An employee who was [...]

Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal today granted a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Publix Super Markets, Inc., and quashed a trial court order that had required the supermarket [...]

On March 15, the Florida Supreme Court held that a plaintiff suing defendants who reside in different counties is not limited by the “joint residency rule” and can sue in the county of his or her [...]