Steve Plunkett

August 31, 2012 | Daily Business Review

The Home Depot and a ladder manufacturer will not have to pay $350,000 in the death of a Miami civil engineer who fell from a folding aluminum ladder, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled.

By Steve Plunkett

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May 03, 2013 | Daily Business Review

The families of four construction workers killed in a Miami Dade College garage collapse, along with five injured workers, have reached confidential settlement in their wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits.

By Steve Plunkett

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March 12, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Podhurst Orseck partner Stephen Rosenthal files a lawsuit after his mother, attorney Judith Rosenthalal, had "a 2-inch by 1-inch hunk of flesh" ripped from her calf by a neighbor's dog.

By Steve Plunkett

2 minute read

December 19, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Paid professional campaigner Louis Medina has sued Palmetto Bay Mayor Shelley Stanczyk and others for calling him a "boletero."

By Steve Plunkett

2 minute read

June 19, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Newly seated North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau is being sued by former Mayor Kevin Burns, the loser in a June 4 runoff election, who claims she was not a bona fide city resident and should not have been permitted to run.

By Steve Plunkett

2 minute read

November 27, 2012 | Daily Business Review

The Epic Hotel filed a suit that says the Kyma Lounge is too noisy and the lounge's operators are behind on the rent.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read

April 05, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Citing the 2010 edition of the business world's Gregg Reference Manual as their expert, the Florida Supreme Court ruled the word "email" needs its hyphen.

By Steve Plunkett

1 minute read

January 31, 2013 | Daily Business Review

A Miami-Dade jury awarded less than a third of what the first jury gave to the mother of a teen killed in a Ford Explorer rollover 16 years ago.

By Steve Plunkett

3 minute read

November 07, 2012 | Daily Business Review

The 3rd DCA reversed a six-month contempt sentence for an accused burglar who uttered the F word in court but out of earshot of Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Stacy Glick.

By Steve Plunkett

2 minute read

January 29, 2013 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Bar and state Supreme Court will honor the lawyers in Florida who from 2011 to 2012 provided 1.67 million hours of services to those in need and $4.88 million to legal aid organizations.

By Steve Plunkett

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