Navigation With a potential Category 3 hurricane expected to make landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast later this week, The Florida Bar is reactivating its Disciplinary Hotline to address resident concerns over potential professional misconduct and unlawful solicitation by lawyers in the storm’s aftermath. Floridians who encounter such issues can report them by calling the hotline at […]
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AG Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit nabs $700K from toxicology lab
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has secured more than $700,000 in a multistate action against a toxicology lab. The action comes after allegations Precision Toxicology LLC doing business as Precision Diagnostics Inc. knowingly submitted or caused to be submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs related to urine drug testing that […]
Judge cuts extraordinary attorney fees in failed Big Lots class action
A notorious class action lawyer is on the hook for nearly $150,000 in attorney fees after bringing a case that had no chance of winning. In a September 25 order, U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Prennell granted Big Lots’ motion that New York attorney Spencer Sheehan and plaintiff Peggy Durant are liable for $144,047 for […]
Attorney General Moody Files Amicus Brief Supporting Victims Hamas Terrorism
Attorney General Ashley Moody and 21 other state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia urging the court to deny requests to dismiss a lawsuit brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act by survivors of, and family members of those murdered during, Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist […]
Delray Beach Resident Sues Property Manager and Store Manager Over Negligence Leading to Injuries
A Delray Beach resident has filed a lawsuit seeking damages for injuries sustained in a parking lot accident. Richard K. Levin lodged the complaint against PMG Ocean Associates II, LLC and Jonathan Legrand in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, on September 20, 2024. According to the court […]