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Petros
& Elegant handles complex civil litigation matters in Florida state and
federal courts. The firm prosecutes and defends statutory and common law
business claims in state and federal court as well as before arbitration
tribunals. These cases usually
involve large sums of money and typically include one or more of the following
claims: breach of contract, fraud, fraud in the inducement, breach of fiduciary
duty, unjust enrichment, tortuous interference with business relationships
and/or contracts, and trademark infringement. The firm has been particularly successful at trial with
these cases by utilizing state of the art trial presentation technology. This technology is used in part to
present time lines on a large screen, use excerpts of deposition testimony for
impeachment of adverse witnesses and to further emphasize demonstrative
exhibits. These visual aids assist the fact finder in understanding the
evidence in order to reach a favorable decision.
Examples of the firm's success came in the repeated defense of an international hotel corporation and in litigation on behalf of an officer of a foreign bank who was wrongfully terminated in violation of the Florida Statutes and her employment contract:
The firm has been very successful with first party insurance claims. The firm has repeatedly obtained coverage for losses on behalf of clients against insurers in a variety of contexts including property damage claims and claims for life insurance benefits. Examples of such recoveries have come in the following contexts: vandalism causing extensive damage to a warehouse; hurricane damage to the roof structures of a multi-unit office park; structural damage to a condominium parking garage; and hurricane related damage to an oceanfront home. Examples of these cases recently handled by the firm are as follows:
Personal Injury/Wrongful Death The firm has extensive experience litigating cases arising from accidents. These cases include general negligence arising from automobile accidents and plane crashes, negligent security, premises liability, maritime and admiralty, construction and products liability. The firm's use of trial presentation technology has been critical to its success. The technology is frequently used to enhance demonstrative exhibits such as x-rays and medical reports depicting injuries, to impeach witnesses using deposition testimony and to convey the extent of suffering using day-in-the-life videos. The impact of this technology is enormous as it allows the fact finder to visualize and understand the extent of the subject injury or tragedy. Though the firm most frequently prosecutes these cases, our lawyers are sometimes retained to defend parties in high stakes litigation which is likely to go to trial. Having both successfully prosecuted and defended these cases for many years has been invaluable to the firm and its clients. Representative cases successfully handled by the firm are as follows:
Since its inception, the firm has successfully handled medical malpractice cases. This firm has favorably settled, or tried to verdict, cases involving the negligence of the following: obstetricians, anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, pediatric geneticists, radiologists, plastic surgeons as well as countless other physicians, medical professional associations, clinics and hospitals. The firm's use of trial presentation technology has also been critical to its great results in these cases. The firm's ability to digitally enhance demonstrative exhibits such as x-rays and medical reports depicting injuries, to impeach witnesses using deposition testimony and to convey the extent of suffering using day-in-the-life videos has all been invaluable. Using this technology allows the fact finder to visualize and understand the extent of the subject injury or tragedy. Similarly, the firm has successfully handled nursing home negligence matters and cases against other care facilities for the elderly and developmentally disabled. These claims almost always involve neglect in the care and treatment thereby resulting in decubitus ulcers, wandering from the facility, malnutrition, and/or violent attacks by other residents and/or staff at the given facility. Our lawyers have become so familiar with the medical record keeping and policies and procedures at these facilities that fraudulent record keeping, as evidenced by substantive changes made in a resident's chart long after the subject injury or tragedy, is often detected. Uncovering unlawful record changes and/or recognizing and promptly exposing a facility's forged documents has promptly led to the resolution of several cases.
Appeals The firm handles the majority of its own appeals. Our lawyers have appeared before Florida's District Courts of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Florida and in the federal appellate courts, including the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Our lawyers enjoy and take pride in their appellate writing and have achieved great results before the appellate courts. Our lawyers bring the same confident courtroom presence which has been so successful before the lower courts, to its oral arguments before the various appellate panels. Cases in which the firm has prevailed on appeal are the following:
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