Adolfo Pesquera

January 12, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Nine years after the Legislature produced an umbrella law that included the cap on damages for pain and suffering, regardless of the number of survivors, a wrongful death case is testing the wisdom of that era's lawmakers.

By Adolfo Pesquera

6 minute read

October 18, 2013 | Daily Business Review

German building supply maker Knauf starts a drywall trial in Miami from a position of weakness following sanctions for destroying evidence.

By Adolfo Pesquera

3 minute read

April 18, 2012 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Supreme Court will look into a California resident's complaint that she was denied access to Florida courts after suing a Miami-based company that runs a Mexican resort where she was raped.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

February 27, 2012 | Daily Business Review

TD Bank reached an undisclosed settlement with investors in Razorback Funding, leaving only Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust to face trial in Broward Circuit Court. That trial is scheduled to start Thursday after the bankruptcy judge refused an injunction to stop it.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

September 18, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Gregory Weiss represented a real estate developer in Palm Beach County in a Chinese drywall case against Coastal Construction of South Florida Inc. Coastal settled the case for $24 million in mediation.

By Adolfo Pesquera

3 minute read

March 05, 2012 | Daily Business Review

In final budget talks, the state Senate is proposing a 7 percent cut in the clerks' budgets, which would mean about 830 job cuts statewide.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

May 15, 2013 | Daily Business Review

An Orlando pastor named in a National Enquirer article as a suspect in the human sacrifice of Caylee Anthony asks to revive his defamation lawsuit against the tabloid.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

December 06, 2012 | Daily Business Review

West Palm Beach attorney Philip G. Thompson helped a man sentenced to 17 years receive a $1.2 million award for permanent damage to an eye after an inmate serving five life sentences tossed scalding water from a microwave onto his face at a correctional center.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

June 26, 2013 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act will have few immediate benefits for Florida same-sex couples, but it has encouraged them to try to overturn the gay marriage ban in the state Constitution.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

September 10, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Two New York-based real estate funds for a German investment group are pursuing a civil racketeering lawsuit against several South Florida companies and executives.

By Adolfo Pesquera

7 minute read