By Katheryn Tucker. James Merritt put on a seersucker suit and bow tie for the trial in Glynn County Superior Court. His friends said he looked like Ben Matlock. A man hurt in a car accident asked a Brunswick jury for a million dollars in damages. The other side said maybe $20,000 would be fair…. Read More
Supreme Court Limits Employers’ Defense on Job Bias Claims
Prepared by Karen Nissen, Esq. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on June 3, 2019 which impacts the landscape of defending Title VII employment discrimination cases. In the case of Fort Bend County v. Davis, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 3891 the Supreme Court issued a ruling regarding the requirement in Title VII that employees must… Read More
Florida Supreme Court adopts Daubert
On May 23, 2019 the Supreme Court of Florida reversed itself and adopted the Daubert standard for determining the admissibility of expert testimony. In case no. SC19-107, In re: Amendments to the Florida Evidence Code, the court reversed its decisions in In re Amendments to Florida Evidence Code, 210 So. 3d 1231, 1239 (Fla. 2017)… Read More
AM Best Podcast featuring G. Jeffrey Vernis, Managing Partner: “Managing the Unmanageable Claim”
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Evelyn Greenstone Kammet to speak at Florida RIMS conference
Evelyn Greenstone Kammet, Department Head in the firm’s Miami, FL office, will be a featured speaker at the Florida RIMS conference. Evelyn’s topic will be: Shielding Your Company from Liability in the #MeToo Era. The conference will be held July 30-August 2, 2019 in Naples, FL.