Evelyn Greenstone Kammet (Miami, FL) (D&O/Appeal) Evelyn Greenstone Kammet successfully defeated two appeals filed by a unit owner against his condominium association regarding an award of attorney’s fees (note, Ms. Greenstone Kammet also handled the evidentiary hearing regarding attorney’s fees at the trial court level). Specifically, the unit owner sought $189,900.00 in attorney’s fees, and when the trial… Read More
Kapitanov v. Spinnaker Bay Townhomes Community Association, Inc.
Evelyn Greenstone Kammet and Miguel Espinosa (Miami, FL) (D&O/Appeal) Evelyn Greenstone Kammet and Miguel Espinosa successfully obtained a Dismissal with prejudice of unit owners’ derivative claims after all five iterations of their complaint were dismissed (over the course of two years) for failing to satisfy the particularity requirement of Fla. Stat. 617.07401(2), governing pre-suit requirements to maintaining a shareholder derivative… Read More
Beasley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and Lilac Group-Sanford, LLC
Tim Kazee and Matthew Bernstein (Deland, FL) (Appeal) The Plaintiff parked in the drive thru lane of our client, Wells Fargo bank. Plaintiff then walked across the street to a bar. Upon returning to his vehicle, he was shot in the head. Plaintiff survived and filed a premises liability lawsuit in federal court against the bank and the alleged… Read More
Meinert, Ann Marie v. Wawa, Inc.
William G. Hyland Jr. (Deland, FL) (Appellate) previously brought a successful Motion for Summary Judgment in this matter, which involved a slip and fall accident that occurred on January 15, 2015 at the convenience store owned by the Defendant, Wawa, Inc. Plaintiff alleged that “she tripped and/or slipped on a transitory foreign substance or surface… Read More
Summary Judgment Confirmed in Appellate Ruling of Sexual Abuse Claim
Tommie DePrima and Tom Paradise (Hollywood, FL) (Appellate) previously obtained a Summary Judgment ruling in favor of the Defendant in a case involving the alleged sexual abuse of a minor female student by her school coach, over a two-year period. The student brought a lawsuit alleging negligent hiring, negligent retention, negligent supervision and negligent infliction… Read More