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Date: March 29, 2011
David Rash and Matthew Moore are going to trial in the tragic death of
Andrea Nieves, due to the negligence of a treating doctor at West
Kendall Urgent Care Center |
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Date: July 13, 2011
NBA Champion Alonzo Mourning will once again host the largest event of the summer – THE SUMMER GROOVE. |
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FL - Alters Law Firm, P.A. today announced the firm has filed a class
action complaint, in the Northern District of Florida Federal Court,
against BP P.L.C., BP Products North America, Inc., BP America, Inc.,
Transocean, LTD., Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc.,
Transocean Deepwater, Inc., Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., and
Cameron International Corporation. |
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Date: March 13, 2010
By Nirvi Shah
Major banks lost a bid to quash lawsuits questioning the way overdraft fees were calculated and charged. |
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Date: March 10, 2010
By Julie Kay
Miami federal judge has denied requests by the nation’s biggest banks
to dismiss a class-action suit by checking account customers who claim
they are being charged abusive overdraft fees on debit cards. |
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Date: March 5, 2010
By Jodana Mishory
The Florida Supreme Court was asked Thursday to decide issues that may
dictate the future handling of hurricane claims, insurance payouts and
deductibles. |
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Date: January 07, 2010
By Tim Elfrink
Liao
leans back in his insulated guard booth in front of a massive factory
69 miles southeast of Beijing. It's November 30, and a cold front has
blown in off the Bohai Gulf.
Liao lights a cheap cigarette and stares for a minute at the buildings. Bulky columns of pale smoke billow into bracing air. |
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Date: Thursday November 19th, 2009
By Jeremy Wilson
Best
Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the
legal profession, has named Bruce S. Rogow as the “Miami Area Best
Lawyers Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year” for 2010.
After
more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is
designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in
large legal communities. |
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Date: Thursday October 8th, 2009
By Beatrice E. Garcia and Nirvi Shah
Homeowners living in houses with suspect Chinese drywall are already in
a bind: Their air conditioners stop working, a rotten-egg smell
permeates their homes, they suffer a litany of health problems
including troubled breathing, nosebleeds and headaches.
Now, some of them could lose their property insurance coverage. |
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Date: September 16, 2009
Hundreds
of homeowners jammed a meeting in Mandeville City Hall on Wednesday
night to figure out what to do about Chinese drywall in their homes.
The forum, organized by state Sens. Julie Quinn, R-Metairie, and A.G.
Crowe, R-Slidell, had a line snaking outside the door with people from
as far away as Baton Rouge. After efforts to move to a community center
failed, Quinn held back-to-back meetings to try to squeeze people into
City Hall in shifts. A police officer estimated the crowd at 500.
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Date: September 17, 2009
MANDEVILLE, La. -- Hundreds of people caught in the growing contaminated drywall problem packed the Mandeville City Hall Wednesday night.
Thousands
of people statewide, many of them on the Northshore, are frustrated and
angry that they're trying to survive and cope in homes built with
contaminated drywall, and few know where to turn. |
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Date: September 17, 2009
Reported by: Shelley Brown (FOX 8 News)
Hundreds of people packed Mandeville City Hall Wednesday evening for a
town hall meeting aimed at tackling tainted Chinese drywall problems.
State Senators A.G. Crowe (R-Slidell) and Julie Quinn (R-Metairie)
ended up hosting two town hall meetings due to larger, unexpected
crowds.
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Date: September 17, 2009
MANDEVILLE,
La. – A colossal crowd unsuccessfully tried to squeeze inside of the
Mandeville City Council chambers, eager to get answers on what to do
about their contaminated Chinese drywall.
The unexpected overflow painted a grim reality in the New Orleans metro
area—an immense population victimized by toxic drywall. |
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Date: September 17, 2009
Hundreds
of homeowners jammed a meeting in Mandeville City Hall on Wednesday
night to figure out what to do about Chinese drywall in their homes.
The forum, organized by state Sens. Julie Quinn, R-Metairie, and A.G.
Crowe, R-Slidell, had a line snaking outside the door with people from
as far away as Baton Rouge. After efforts to move to a community center
failed, Quinn held back-to-back meetings to try to squeeze people into
City Hall in shifts. A police officer estimated the crowd at 500. |
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Date: September 9, 2009
When
Peter Means returned to graduate school after a career as a civil
servant, he turned to a debit card to help him spend his money more
carefully.
So he was stunned when his bank charged him seven $34
fees to cover seven purchases when there was not enough cash in his
account, notifying him only afterward. He paid $4.14 for a coffee at
Starbucks — and a $34 fee. He got the $6.50 student discount at the
movie theater — but no discount on the $34 fee. |
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Date: August 29, 2009
Since
2006, new homeowners in 23 states have been suffering from what they
say are odorous batches of corrosive drywall that were imported from
China and used by U.S home builders.
On
the outside, they are new and sunny looking. On the inside, they are
strange-smelling and rotting. These are the thousands of new houses
built in the United States within the past few years that owners allege
may contain yet another problem export from China: bad drywall. |
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Date: July 24, 2009
MIAMI - Georgetown University student Melanie Garcia became alarmed
last summer when her Wachovia branch in Miami Springs charged her two
overdraft fees for covering debit card transactions with insufficient
funds in her account.
Garcia then discovered something peculiar about her purchases. At least
four transactions were held for three days, and a check with the
highest amount was processed first, depleting her account when smaller
and earlier transactions could have been processed without a fee. |
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Date: August 6, 2009
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's famous beret is gone. His iconic beard is
filthy and matted against skeletal cheekbones. Bushy eyebrows arch over
his half-open eyes.
As a Bolivian country surgeon methodically saws off his lifeless hands, Che appears vaguely amused.
Gustavo Villoldo, a stocky figure in green Army fatigues, stands just
inside the tiny laundry room where the Cuban revolutionary's corpse
rests atop a sink. For five months, the CIA operative led soldiers
hunting Guevara through the rough crags and valleys of southern
Bolivia. Less than 24 hours ago, his team captured and executed him in
the village of La Higuera and then brought his body here to
Vallegrande. |
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Date: August 5, 2009
MIAMI HERALD - Broward homeowners who have discovered that defective
imported drywall is damaging their homes could be eligible for a break
on their property tax bills this year.
Homeowners who have documentation that the presence of defective
Chinese drywall triggered an insurance claim, a request for assistance
from a mortgage company, a lawsuit, or have other paperwork showing the
problem exists could see reduced home values, said Ron Gunzburger,
general counsel for the Broward property appraiser's office.
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Date: June 16, 2009
MANATEE - A Lakewood Ranch homeowner's lawsuit over Chinese drywall and
nine other similar class-action lawsuits filed elsewhere will be
consolidated into one case in Louisiana, a panel of federal judges
ruled Monday.
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said the 10 drywall
cases, including Kristin Culliton's, will be handled and tried in New
Orleans. The seven-member panel also appointed U.S. District Judge
Eldon E. Fallon to preside over the consolidated case.
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Date: June 8, 2009
MIAMI June 8, 2009 - Alters Law Firm has been selected for the 2009 Miami Award in the Local Business category.
Each year, The Miami Award Program recognizes outstanding local
businesses that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success
in their local community and business category. These are local
companies that enhance the positive image of small business through
service to their customers and community.
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Date: June 2, 2009
MIAMI (AP) - A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 billion in damages
against the Cuban government for the 1959 suicide of the father of a
Cuban-American man who was involved in the CIA-backed capture and
killing of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. |
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Date: June 1, 2009
MIAMI, FL - Miami-Dade Judge Peter Adrien awarded $1.179 billion to two
Cuban brothers, Gustavo and Alfredo Villoldo, to pay damages for the
wrongful death of their father, Cuban businessman Gustavo Villoldo
Argilagos. The judge found the defendants, Fidel Castro Ruz, Raul
Castro Ruz, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Cuban Ministry of Interior, the
Army of the Republic of Cuba, and the Republic of Cuba, guilty of
inflicting intentional emotional distress upon Villoldo Argilagos,
ultimately causing him to commit suicide. |
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Date: May 30, 2009
Miami Herald - There's something rotten in Homestead.
It's the odor in Jason and Melissa Harrell's house, which was built
with defective, Chinese-made drywall redolent of strong paint or rotten
eggs. The smell got so bad that the Harrells felt forced to move. They
now pay rent on top of their mortgage. |
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Date: May 29, 2009
Miami Herald - In what is considered the largest civil judgment against
the Cuban government, a Miami-Dade judge on Friday awarded more than $1
billion to a Miami man who blamed Fidel Castro and his Cuban
revolutionary sidekick Che Guevara for his father's suicide in 1959. |
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Date: May 29, 2009
Los Angeles Times (AP) - A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 billion
in damages against the Cuban government for the 1959 suicide of the
father of a Cuban-American man who was involved in the CIA-backed
capture and killing of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. |
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Date: May 29, 2009
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida judge awarded nearly $1.2 billion on Friday
to a Cuban American former CIA operative who hunted revolutionary Che
Guevara, in a lawsuit he brought against Cuba over the suicide death of
his father. The award eclipses past judgments against the Cuban
government handed down by courts in Miami, the heart of Cuban exile
opposition to the island's communist leadership. But it was not
immediately clear if the judgment could be collected.
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Date: May 29, 2009
Miami New Times - First Fidel Castro's cronies took his father's car
dealership. Then, they took his father's life. Now, Gustavo Villoldo
has a legal verdict for $1 billion against El Commandante himself. And
he fully intends to collect, as crazy as it sounds. |
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Date: May 22, 2009
It all started with a whiff of sulphur. In the home of Kathy Foster and
Drew Rohnke, and in some of the other houses throughout their
two-year-old subdivision in Boynton Beach, Fla., the smell was noxious
-- like a box of lit matches, or rotten eggs. Not to mention that their
new air conditioning unit quit working -- more than once. That's when
Foster and Rohnke began to realize that something eating away at their
$750,000 home, from the inside out. |
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Date: May 20, 2009
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency has found
suspect materials in a small sampling of Chinese-made drywall, adding
weight to fears that the house-building staple may be causing corrosion
in homes and possibly sickening people in several states, a report
released Tuesday said. |
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Date: May 5, 2009
DALLAS, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Dallas-based law firm, Baron & Budd,
P.C., today announces its partnership with Miami-based Alters Law Firm,
in an effort to represent a growing number of homeowners suffering the
effects of Chinese-manufactured drywall. |
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Date: April 10, 2009
There's something lurking in the walls of thousands of beautiful new homes and it stinks.
So what's causing the stench? It's the walls themselves. The drywall,
also known as plasterboard, was imported from China.
Some health officials suspect the drywall from China is contaminated
with dangerous chemicals. When exposed to heat and humidity, it emits
sulfur gases. It causes plugs to turn black, wires to corrode, and
appliances and lights to stop working and nearly every ounce of copper
in the home turns black.
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Date: March 24, 2009
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating whether drywall
made in China may be emitting toxic gases. Most materials used to build
or remodel homes are made in the United States, but the building boom
and Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma caused building material shortages.
That's when some builders started buying up Chinese-made drywall.
Knauf brand drywall is now at the center of several lawsuits alleging
that it emits gases that harm household systems and may be dangerous to
your health. |
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Date: March 17, 2008
Real estate agent Felix Martinez thought he'd found his dream house
when he bought the 3,500-square-foot beauty in Homestead, Fla., two
years ago.
Then, he says, his large-screen TV mysteriously failed. Next, the air
conditioner went. His bath towels smelled like rotten eggs. Visitors
noted an odor in the house. Martinez says he's suffered new sinus
problems and sleep apnea. His wife and son sneeze a lot.
The walls in the home, a recently filed class-action lawsuit alleges,
were built with the same kind of Chinese-made drywall that tests have
shown emit sulfur gases that corrode copper coils and electrical and
plumbing components.
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Date: February 4, 2009
Prominent appellate attorney Bruce Rogow will join Miami plaintiff firm
Alters Law Firm as special counsel.
He will be handling appellate work for the firm and provide trial
support, said firm founder Jeremy Alters. Rogow will continue to work
on some of his own cases and teach at Nova Southeastern University's
law school. |
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Date: February 14, 2008
Sasha Herrera and her fiancé Giancarlo "J.C." Squicimari were spending
a few relaxing days at the Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach last Memorial
Day weekend, seven months before they were to be married.
They were on the beach with friends when they heard a woman screaming.
The woman's two young daughters were struggling in the ocean - one
farther out and in danger of drowning. Squicimari and his friend jumped
into the water.
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Date: February 14, 2008
What makes for cutting-edge décor in a law office? A reception area
with sharks frolicking in an oversize tank? The offices of Alters Law
Firm, in Miami's Design District, are not that extreme, but they are
pretty neat. Surfboards line the hall; comforting throws suitable for
wrapping oneself in are tossed over sofas and chairs, right. |
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Date: November 15, 2008
WSVN -- Cynthia Turner was alone, driving down Interstate 95, the first
time she received a body-rocking shock.
Cynthia Turner: "All of a sudden, it was like lightning came and bam,
my whole body jumped. I had to hit the brakes really fast."
She'd recently had a defibrillator implanted to kick start her heart
into perfect rhythm, but now it was striking her with electrifying
force. |
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Date: July 28, 2008
Ruth Hudge had a pacemaker implanted at Parkway Regional Medical Center
on March 15, 2004, after complaining of chest pains.
The complaint claimed a pacemaker wire tore a hole in her heart, which
led to internal bleeding that caused a neuro-psychological brain injury
and cardiac arrest. Hudge suffered from a cardiac tamponade, a disorder
in which the sac encasing the heart fills with fluid and prevents the
ventricles from pumping out oxygen-rich blood, increasing the risk of a
cardiac arrest.
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