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‘Insurance Crisis’ Looming for Aviation Industry in 2024, 38-Year Veteran Warns

Posted on December 18, 2023

The London aviation insurance market could be in for a chaotic 2024, Steven Marks of Podhurst Orseck predicts, as reinsurers scramble to cover damages for aircraft crashes that are ballooning far more than planned. December 15, 2023 at 06:41 PM A financial crisis is incoming for the aviation industry in the new year due to […]

Plaintiffs Attorney Reflects on 2021 Surfside Condo Collapse Case: ‘It Changed the Fabric of Who I Am’

Posted on September 11, 2023

“For the people who know me, and know how much I care about my clients, and how much time I take to navigate through these complex legal issues, it isn’t an issue of ‘we’re here to get a quick buck,’ or ‘we’re chasing easy money,’ or whatever the rumors are about our profession,” said Lea […]

Justices Order FCA Do-Overs After SuperValu Intent Ruling

Posted on June 30, 2023

By Jeff Overly, Law360 (June 30, 2023, 1:02 PM EDT) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday told the Fourth and Eleventh circuits to revisit closely watched whistleblower cases targeting units of Allergan and Abbott Laboratories, teeing up tests of the high court’s new ruling on the meaning of intentional fraud under the False Claims […]

Supreme Court Revives Abbott Whistleblower’s False Claims Suit

Posted on June 30, 2023

By Daniel Seiden, June 30, 2023 The US Supreme Court revived Friday a whistleblower’s False Claims Act suit alleging that Abbott Laboratories Inc., Arriva Medical LLC, and Alere Inc. improperly billed Medicare for diabetic testing supplies. The Court granted the whistleblower’s petition for writ of certiorari, vacated the judgment of the US Court of Appeals […]

Law360: Chrysler Owners Win Cert. Of 6M Class In Takata Airbag MDL

Posted on June 21, 2023

Law360, Dorothy Atkins (June 20, 2023, 9:53 PM EDT) — A Florida federal judge has certified a class of roughly 6 million Fiat Chrysler vehicle owners in 11 states and the District of Columbia who assert fraud claims against FCA US in sprawling multidistrict litigation accusing automakers of hiding the risks associated with allegedly explosive […]

Boeing Settles 5 Ethiopian 737 Max Cases, Tees Up 1 For Trial

Posted on June 14, 2023

Law360, Linda Chiem (June 14, 2023, 10:55 PM EDT) — Boeing has agreed to settle five wrongful death cases over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash days before a damages trial starts in Chicago federal court, but the family of a Rwandan United Nations worker will still take their case to trial, attorneys for the […]

DBR 2023 Florida Legal Awards Litigation Departments honorees Steven C. Marks and Peter Prieto of Podhurst Orseck.

Posted on May 26, 2023

What are some of the department’s most satisfying successes of 2022, and why? The successful resolution of the case involving the Champlain Towers collapse for $1 billion, where our firm served as lead counsel for the personal injury claims, was one of our most satisfying successes. While the lives lost could never be brought back, […]

UM Law Magazine: Alumnus Pilots One of Largest Aviation Litigation Portfolios in the Nation

Posted on March 03, 2023

BY ALAN GOMEZ   Steven Marks’ first aviation trial was a disaster. Marks, J.D. ’85, was fresh out of the University of Miami School of Law and struggling to make a mark working the leftover commercial cases his higher-ups at Podhurst Orseck sent his way. His office was a converted closet he shared with another young […]

America’s Elite Trial Lawyers (2022)

Posted on August 25, 2022

By STACI ZARETSKY, On August 24, 2022 at 12:12 PM The dog days of summer are here, but lawyers still need some excitement in their lives, so it’s the perfect time for rankings and awards to be handed out. Luckily for us, the National Law Journal just named its Elite Trial Lawyers for 2022, a top prize […]

DOJ Seeks to Settle Claims From Victims of Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar

Posted on August 23, 2022

  More than 100 girls and women who alleged sexual assault have made claims against the FBI for failures after Nassar was reported in the summer of 2015 Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor, appeared in a Michigan court in 2018.PHOTO: REBECCA COOK/REUTERS By Sadie Gurman and Louise Radnofsky   Updated July 28, […]