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Supreme Court of Florida Holds That Economic Loss Doctrine Applies Only to Product Liability Cases

In a recent decision likely to significantly expand the use of tort law in areas previously restricted to contract law, the Supreme Court of Florida limited application of the economic loss doctrine to product liability...more

BP Settlement Claim

After years of litigation, BP Exploration & Production, Inc. and BP America Production Company (collectively, "BP") entered a class-wide settlement ("BP Settlement") that covers most businesses located in the Gulf Coast...more

Wal-Mart Loses $1M Slip and Fall Case

Earlier this year, a woman won a $1 million judgment against Wal-Mart after slipping on a wet spot on the floor of the Northside Jacksonville Wal-Mart Supercenter. This is an unusually high recovery for a Florida slip and...more

Church Members Prohibited From Soliciting Donations In Front Of Grocery Store

Church members can be permanently barred from soliciting donations outside a stand-alone grocery store, under a recent court of appeal ruling (Ralphs Grocery Company v. Missionary Church of the Disciples of Christ (---...more

Commercial Betterment: Why client money shouldn´t grow on trees.

Conventional Damages analyses are further complicated in cases of commercial loss where the compensation of the loss may result in a net gain to the Plaintiff. The law in Ontario as laid out by the Court of Appeal in James...more

Good Night, Sleep Tight, But the Bedbugs Still Bite

CSK Quarterly Spring 2011...more

Sex, Drugs & Violence: Negligent Security Litigation 2010

Published summary of November 2010 "Sex, Drugs & Violence" seminar with John Elliott Leighton as the keynote speaker, moderated by Peter Ariz, Esq., held in Miami, Florida. This was the 2nd annual Sex, Drugs & Violence...more

Amberger-Warren v City of Piedmont

City of Piedmont's Respondent's Brief

Plaintiff was injured while on a paved walkway inside a publicly owned dog park and sued the City of Piedmont, California. Plaintiff claimed the walkway's design made it unreasonably dangerous and that a lack of maintenance...more