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  • October 23, 2024 | Daily Business Review

    Big Law Assembles as Cruise Lines Clinch Partial Victory in $439M Havana Docks Suit

    "As a member of the Cuban American community in South Florida whose family lost everything following the 1959 Cuban revolution, wholeheartedly agree with the dissent," said one attorney not associated with the lawsuit.

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  • P&D Ole Times, LLC v. McCray

    Publication Date: 2023-10-19
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie Kennerly, John Smith, (Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Smith & Lawrence), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Tate, Andrew Zemany, (Tate Law Group LLC), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1192

    Court reverses denial of a restaurant's summary judgment motion in a slip-and-fall case because injured plaintiff failed to exercise reasonable care for his safety

  • December 9, 2022 | Daily Business Review

    What Keeps Foreign Litigators Choosing Miami as Their International Arbitration Venue?

    "Lawyers don't want to have to litigate once in arbitration and then have to relitigate it again in the courts," said José Astigarraga, a partner at Reed Smith.

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  • Consolidated Rest. Operations Inc. v. Westport Ins. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-13
    Practice Area: Covid-19 | Insurance Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging | Insurance
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Justice Judith Gische
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellant: Robin L. Cohen, Alexander M. Sugzda and Orrie A. Levy of counsel, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP, New York.
    for defendant: For Respondent: Aidan M. McCormack and Robert C. Santoro of counsel, DLA Piper LLP (US), New York. For the Restaurant Law Center, New York State Restaurant Association and New York City Hospitality Alliance, amici curiae: Jeremy M. Creelan, Michael W. Ross, David M. Kroeger, Gabriel K. Gillett and David J. Clark of counsel, Jenner & Block LLP, New York. For the Chefs' Warehouse Inc., amicus curiae: John N. Ellison and Richard P. Lewis of counsel, Reed Smith LLP, New York. For United Policyholders, amicus curiae: Andrew Hahn, Andrew Henley, and Rukesh Korde, of the bar of the District of Columbia, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel, Covington & Burling LLP, New York. For New York State Trial Lawyers Association, amicus curiae: E. Leo Milonas, Joseph D. Jean, Maria T. Galeno and Scott D. Greenspan of counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York, and Brian J. Isaac, New York. For American Property Casualty Insurance Association, amicus curiae: Wystan M. Ackerman of counsel, Robinson & Cole LLP, New York
    Case Number: 450839/21

    Covid-19 Is Not 'Physical Loss or Damage' Triggering Business Interruption Coverage

  • January 27, 2017 | National Law Journal

    5 Trump Administration Labor Moves You May Have Missed

    The first week of President Donald Trump's administration brought many developments in the labor and employment space, as the new president proposed nominees to head federal agencies and w

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