Above: Maria Elena Abate of Colodny Fass represented Florida Farm Bureau in a victory for insurers. Twenty-two pending cases asserting a conspiracy by various auto insurers to suppress reimbursement rates for automobile...
The Florida Supreme Court (“Court”) issued a unanimous decision today, December 4, 2014, in Leticia Morales v. Zenith Insurance Company, upholding the workers’ compensation system as the...
By Maria Elena Abate, Esq. and Amy L. Koltnow, Esq. In Mejia v. Citizens Property Ins. Corp., (Nov. 26, 2014), the Second District Court of Appeal ordered the parties to re-try a sinkhole case before a...
By Matthew C. Scarfone, Esq. In an opinion released on October 23, 2014, the Florida Supreme Court upheld a family vehicle exclusion in an automobile insurance policy issued by Travelers Commercial Insurance Co....
Above: Maria Elena Abate Filed An Amicus Brief Last Week On Behalf of PCI, NAMIC The notion that an insurance company could still be liable for bad faith even after having complied with its own policy...
Above: Lawyers Maria Elena Abate and Wes Strickland co-filed comments with the Florida Supreme Court last week on behalf of four major insurance trade associations. Four insurance industry trade...
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By Silvia Maria Gonzalez, Esq. Colodny Fass& Webb On September 5, 2014, the Fifth District Court of Appeal expressly stated that the application of the confession of judgment doctrine as a basis to award...
By Maria Elena Abate, Esq.Colodny Fass& Webb Led by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (“PCI”), the insurance industry won an important federal court victory on September 3, 2014 in...
By Maria Elena Abate, Esq.Colodny Fass, P.A. On September 3, 2014, in an en banc decision, the Fourth District Court of Appeal expressly stated that an insured may proceed with a bad faith claim even when there...