Download this article – PDF Judge Sides With Sweetwater Mayor in Budget Fight Days after warning Sweetwater commissioners that the city will be broke by August, the mayor won court approval Monday to use his version of the budget. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Barbara Areces ruled that the …

By James Diamond In April 2016, the Florida Supreme Court issued an important ruling in Castellanos v. Next Door Co., significantly impacting Florida’s workers’ compensation statute.  The high court struck down the fixed amount of attorneys’ fees that successful workers’ compensation claimants are entitled to under Fla. Stat. § 440.34 …

Authored by James Diamond and Richard I. Segal Florida follows the “American Rule” on the entitlement to attorney’s fees, in that attorney’s fees generally are not recoverable as an element of damages in the absence of statutory authority or a contractual agreement. However, civil litigators throughout Florida should be aware …

By Jeffrey Berman Last week, Kluger, Kaplan, Katzen and Levine, P.L. obtained a victory for a client when the Third DCA affirmed a ruling from Judge Sarah Zabel denying a motion to seek damages against an injunction bond. Read opinion here. We obtained an injunction on behalf of our client, Aventura …

“We are thrilled to have Marissa on our team,” said Founding Member Alan Kluger. Prior to joining Kluger Kaplan, Marissa was a summer associate at the firm of Jackson Lewis, LLP and a Field Placement Intern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia.  She also interned …