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MMP&S Secures a Complete Reversal in the New York Appellate Division on Coverage Dispute
Sarah Ziolkowski of MMP&S secured the complete reversal of a lower court order that denied an insurer’s motion for summary judgment and refused to declare that the insurer had no duty to defend or indemnify the plaintiffs in an underlying Labor Law case. The...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Assignment of Insurance Benefits Trial
Ian Alperstein and Samantha Reynolds obtained a defense verdict for a first-party property insurance company after a one-week trial in the County Court of Broward County, Florida. Plaintiff was a mold remediation contractor who performed work for our client’s insured...
MMP&S Secures a Reversal in New York’s Appellate Division, First Department on Priority of Coverage
Lorin Donnelly and Sarah Ziolkowski of MMP&S secured a reversal of a lower court order determining the priority of coverage between a general contractor’s primary policy and a subcontractor’s excess policy. The subcontractor’s primary policy afforded additional...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Broward County
Michael Lynott and Samantha Reynolds of MMP&S obtained a complete defense verdict for a property insurance company in Broward County Circuit Court on March 7, 2024, after a four-day jury trial. The Plaintiff alleged breach of contract for denying a claim for...
MMP&S Obtains Another Broward County Defense Verdict
Ian Alperstein and Isha Kumar of MMP&S’s Boca Raton, Florida office obtained a defense verdict for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation in the Circuit Court of Broward County, Florida. The plaintiffs alleged that Citizens breached its insurance contract by...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Broward County Circuit Court
The trial team of Michael J. Lynott and Ian Alperstein achieved a defense verdict after four days of trial in Broward County Circuit Court on December 21, 2023. The trial was before Judge Michelle Towbin-Singer. Lynott and Alperstein were defending the denial of...
MMP&S Obtains Another Defense Verdict in Florida First-Party Property Action
Ian Alperstein and Isha Kumar obtained a defense verdict for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation in the Broward County Court. The Plaintiff alleged that Citizens breached its insurance contract by denying a claim for windstorm damage stemming from Tropical Storm...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in First-Party Property Action
Ian Alperstein and Isha Kumar obtained a defense verdict for Citizens Insurance in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleged that Citizens breached its insurance contract by denying a claim for water damage caused by a one-time plumbing backup and...
MMP&S Prevails In Moped Accident Liability Trial In Kings County, New York.
MMP&S partner James Baden successfully tried a liability-only trial in Kings County, New York. The plaintiff was riding a moped and claimed that our client did not see him and reversed into him while parallel parking. The jury determined the plaintiff was 90% at fault...
Super Lawyers® Names MMP&S Partners in the 2023 Edition
Milber Makris Plousadis & Seiden, LLP congratulates our Super Lawyers and Rising Stars for 2023. We are proud to announce that this year we have 16 attorneys who received this recognition. MMP&S is pleased to congratulate our Woodbury, NY Partners Lorin Donnelly,...
MMP&S Prevails on Motion for Summary Judgment, Affirmed on Appeal, and Recouped Defense Costs
MMP&S Miami-based partners, Michael Lynott, Martina Lanfersiek, and Crystal Arocha prevailed on a Motion for Summary Judgment in Indian River County, Florida, on a premises liability case in which the firm represented a residential home builder. The Plaintiff in...
MMP&S Secured Defense Verdict in Miami Dade County Circuit Court
Ian Alperstein and Chauncey Dean obtained a defense verdict for Citizens Insurance in Miami Dade County Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleged that Citizens breached its contract by denying a claim for a wind-created opening in the plaintiff’s roof that led to interior...
MMP&S Prevails in Multi-Vehicle Accident Liability Trial in Florida
Michael Lynott and Crystal Arocha tried a liability-only case in a three-car highway accident case where MMP&S’s client allegedly struck a truck, pushing it into the plaintiff’s lane, striking the plaintiff’s vehicle and causing the plaintiff to drive off the...
MMP&S Secures Defense Verdict in Broward County, Florida
On February 9, 2023, MMP&S trial team of Michael J. Lynott and Ian Alperstein obtained a jury defense verdict for Citizens Insurance Company in Broward County Circuit Court. The claim was for Hurricane Irma which allegedly caused water damage to plaintiff’s home...
New York Governor Vetoes Grieving Families Act
On June 2, 2022, the New York State legislature passed the “Grieving Families Act,” which would have made sweeping changes to New York State’s 175-year-old wrongful death statute (§5-4.1 of New York’s Estate, Powers and Trusts Law) by dramatically expanding the...
MMP&S Defeats Summary Judgment Motion in NY Labor Law Matter
James Baden, a partner in our Purchase, New York office, successfully opposed a plaintiff’s summary judgment motion in a complicated Labor Law matter pending in the New York State Supreme Court, Queens County. The plaintiff was dismantling a scaffold, when he fell 10...
Super Lawyers® Names MMP&S Partners in the 2022 Edition
Milber Makris Plousadis & Seiden, LLP is pleased to congratulate our partners Christopher Albanese, Richard Davies, Kevin Dmochowsky, Lorin Donnelly, Daniel Rucket and Susan Stromberg for being named Super Lawyers®, and Alicia Gross, Niall Harding, Kenneth...
MMP&S Secures Two Nominal Settlements Before Florida Trials
Michael Lynott of MMP&S’s Miami office and Jennifer Noud-Duarte of MMP&S’s Boca Raton office obtained two favorable settlements for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) on the eve of one trial and the first day of another. The night before a...
MMP&S Prevails on Motion for Summary Judgment in Miami-Dade County
Jennifer Noud-Duarte of MMP&S’s Boca Raton office prevailed on a summary judgment motion in a breach of contract action involving a water leak. Judge Elijah A. Levitt in the County Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County adopted our...
MMP&S Secures Defense Verdict on Behalf of Suffolk County in Motor Vehicle Case
Trial partner John Grisafi secured a liability defense verdict on behalf of Suffolk County, New York for claims of personal injuries arising out of a motor vehicle accident. The plaintiff claimed that a Suffolk County bus struck the co-defendant’s vehicle in the rear...
Amendments to Florida Law Limit Use of Proposals for Settlement and Offers of Judgment
The Florida Supreme Court has dramatically changed the law regarding Proposals for Settlement and Offers of Judgment pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.442 and Section 768.79, Florida Statutes. An Amendment effective July 1, 2022, revises Rule 1.442 to...
MMP&S Wins Appeal Upholding Unanimous Defense Verdict in Labor Law Trial
Appellate partner Lorin Donnelly prevailed on a years’ long appeal by plaintiff of a unanimous defense verdict obtained in March 2019 by trial partner Donna Pascucci Day. The underlying jury trial took place in New York State Supreme Court, Kings County (Brooklyn)...
MMP&S Wins Motion to Dismiss in Delayed Burial Action
Samantha Lansky and Jennifer Bentivegna prevailed on a pre-answer motion to dismiss in Supreme Court, Suffolk County in an action stemming from a delayed burial. Plaintiffs, relatives of the decedent, commenced suit against our client, a funeral home, and...
Amendments to the New York State Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (“CIDA”)
On December 31, 2021, New York State enacted the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (“CIDA”). The stated purpose of the Act is to ensure that parties in a litigation are correctly informed about the limits of potential insurance coverage. The burden on defense...
Virtual Panel Discussion on Navigating the Discovery and Data Challenges of the Remote Office
The unprecedented, rapid shift to remote work created substantial discovery and data challenges. The tension between security and access, transparency and privacy has never been more acute. Flexible work environments are here to stay. How are legal and data...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Month-Long Medical Malpractice Trial
Donna Pascucci and Niall Harding from MMP&S’s Purchase, New York office recently secured a defense verdict in a healthcare/medical malpractice matter in New York Supreme Court, Suffolk County. Donna and Niall successfully defended a Nurse Practitioner who...
Super Lawyers® Names MMP&S Partners and Associates in the 2021 Edition
Milber Makris Plousadis & Seiden, LLP is pleased to congratulate our partners Susan Stromberg, Lorin Donnelly, Christopher Albanese and Kenneth Morgillo, and our associates Jerome Orlhac and Alicia Gross for being named Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars® in the 2021...
MMP&S Wins Motion for Summary Judgment on Trip and Fall Premises Liability Case
In Erika Daubenmire v. D.R. Horton, Inc., MMP&S prevailed on a Motion for Summary Judgment on a trip and fall premises liability case in Indian River County, Florida. MMP&S's client is a home builder, which was constructing residential homes in a subdivision...
MMP&S Obtains Defense Verdict in Four Day Jury Trial
In Avril/Romain v. Citizens Property Insurance Company, MMP&S prevailed in a four-day jury trial and obtained a defense verdict in favor of their client Citizens. After deliberating for one hour and ten minutes, the jury agreed with the defense position that there...
MMP&S WINS APPEAL IN WRONGFUL DEATH CASE
Vantroba et al v. Zodiaco et al., MMP&S obtained a reversal and dismissal of wrongful death claims in the Appellate Division, Second Department. The decedent died of smoke inhalation from a fire that started on top of the stove in the decedent's apartment. The...