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Notable Results
January 26, 2023: KPL’s client—a personal injury law firm headquartered in New York—was retained by the Plaintiffs in 2018 to investigate the viability of a potential cause of action against the University of Utah and related entities, stemming from in vitro fertilization services provided to one of the plaintiffs in 1990.  Those services resulted in...
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September 23, 2022: KPL attorneys Richard Jones and Chris Fraga secured dismissal of a third-party claim for contribution stemming from a soured business deal between a 90-year-old businessman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and his longtime lawyer, Howard Kleinhendler. Initially, Applestein sued Kleinhendler for professional malpractice, elder abuse, breach of fiduciary duty and other tort theories...
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July 19, 2019: KGPL attorneys Alex Diaz and Chris Fraga prevailed in demonstrating to the Court that a legal malpractice claim brought by numerous beneficiaries of a will was a sham pleading. The case stems from an underlying guardianship and the ultimate death of local Miami artist Purvis Young.  During the guardianship, several attorneys rendered...
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May 9, 2019:  The Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed a verdict in favor of an attorney represented by the Firm who was accused of failing to honor a renegotiated fee agreement by his client. Partners Rob Klein, Mark Sullivan, and Andrew Feldman successfully defended the appeal. The attorney had originally taken on the underlying...
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December 14, 2018 : Partners Houston Park, Rob Klein, and Andrew Feldman were successful in reversing an order denying a motion to compel arbitration in a construction defect case venued in Volusia County. The Fifth District Court of Appeal agreed with the Firm’s contention that the trial court erred when it declined the defendant’s request...
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September 26, 2018: The Third District affirmed a trial court’s order dismissing the appellant/plaintiff’s complaint with prejudice based on her failure to state a cause of action against the University of Miami’s Children and Youth Law Clinic. The court agreed with firm attorneys Robert Klein and Andrew Feldman that plaintiff was not a client of the...
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September 24, 2018: Partners Robert Klein and Richard Jones obtained final summary judgment on behalf of a law firm that represented buyers in a real estate transaction. The attorneys were accused by the seller of conspiring with or otherwise tortiously interfering with the seller’s contract with the buyers when one of the buyers quit-claimed their...
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July 24, 2018: Helen Miranda and Tyler Raiford successfully obtained a final declaratory judgment on behalf of an insurance carrier in a coverage case involving the interpretation of a Business Owners/Lessors Risk policy. The underlying case involved a Plaintiff who suffered damages after an aircraft he was piloting malfunctioned and collided with the ground. The...
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January 19, 2018: Partners Robert Klein, Richard Jones, and associate Andrew Feldman obtained final summary judgment on behalf of a law firm that was accused of engaging in a RICO conspiracy to funnel assets into a charitable organization through a scheme to forge estate planning documents.  In ordering the claim dismissed, the Court concluded there...
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Partners Joseph Lowe and Richard Jones successfully affirmed summary judgment in a coverage case involving the interpretation of a specified medical professions professional liability policy. The case involved a plaintiff who claimed she suffered a stroke after being given a massage at a massage parlor by a therapist who was an independent contractor. The independent...
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