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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
