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An in-depth look at changes impacting insurers arising from Florida's new tort reform act

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On March 24, 2023, Florida passed a sweeping tort reform bill into law, making major changes to civil litigation in the state. In anticipation of the Governor signing the bill into law, the number of new cases initiated...more

Miller & Martin PLLC

Florida Tort Reform Bill Signed Into Law

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On March 24, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Florida House Bill 837, “Civil Remedies,” into law. HB 837 is sweeping tort reform legislation that could change how tort cases are litigated in Florida. ...more

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Florida’s Comprehensive Tort Reform – Governor DeSantis Signs H.B. 837 Into Law, Signaling a New Era For Civil Litigation in...

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On March 24, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed H.B. 837 into law. This legislation enacts significant and wide-ranging changes to civil litigation practice in the state, including revamping comparative negligence...more

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Florida Tort Reform HB 837 - What Insurers Need to Know

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On March 24, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 837 into law, a wide sweeping tort reform bill that served to overhaul Florida’s litigation landscape. This legislation has a slew of effects on the judicial system...more

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Florida Tort Reform Law Brings Significant Changes

Florida House Bill 837, signed into law on March 24, 2023, implements significant tort reform measures that should interest any company engaging in business in Florida, owning property in Florida or litigating in Florida. The...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Sweeping Changes to Florida Tort Laws Are Now in Effect

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On March 24, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 837 into law, effecting sweeping reform of Florida’s tort laws. Some of the most notable changes are to Florida’s frameworks for negligence, insurance,...more

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Florida Passes Tort Reform Bill

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On Friday, March 24, 2023, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, signed into law a tort reform bill, HB 837. The bill impacts, among other things, bad faith actions and attorney’s fee awards. Of particular importance to...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Florida’s Most Comprehensive Tort Reform in Decades and What it Means for Insurers and Bad Faith Law

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This morning Governor Ron DeSantis signed the reforms compiled in Senate Bill 236 and House Bill 837 (“HB 837”). Some of the key aims of HB 837 with respect to insurance include decreasing frivolous lawsuits, altering...more

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The Supreme Court of Georgia Sheds New Light on Apportionment of Damages

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The Supreme Court of Georgia issued another decision in its recent line of cases opining on the scope and availability of Georgia’s apportionment statute - O.C.G.A. § 51-12-13. This latest decision, Alston & Bird, LLP v....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Prison Litigation Reform Act – A Product Liability Statute in Disguise

United States prisoners file an inordinate number of often frivolous lawsuits. In federal district courts alone, prisoners filed more than 28,000 last year. With time on their hands, and influenced by plaintiff attorneys’...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Why Does Class-Action Defense Spending Continue to Rise?

It’s almost inevitable; once a company grows its market to a certain size, its stakeholders are likely to face class-action litigation. Despite a downward trend in class-action defense expenditures from 2011 to 2014, spending...more

McAfee & Taft

Gavel to Gavel: Oklahoma and the American Rule

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Oklahoma made national headlines this spring when it “accidentally” abolished the American Rule — the rule that generally both parties to a lawsuit pay their own lawyers. This would have made Oklahoma the only loser-pays...more

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House Passes Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017

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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017 (H.R. 985) (the Act). The Act – introduced by Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte – makes...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Take Two!: Congress Revives the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act

This week, the House of Representatives is debating the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017 (H.R. 985; the Act), a Republican-sponsored bill that, if passed, will critically change the procedures governing class...more

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Baseless Claims In Texas Now Have Financial Consequences

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On March 1, 2013, Rule 91a of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect, permitting early challenges to allegedly baseless claims. The new rule permits a party to file a motion to dismiss a cause of action on the...more

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