Reed Smith attorneys are celebrating a victory in Miami federal court for their client against a major insurance carrier, nearly seven years after Hurricane Irma damaged a multimillion-dollar South Florida home.

A jury in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida awarded compensatory damages to Edith Newman and her son Michael, who were representing her dead husband, Joel Newman.

Judge Jacqueline Becerra of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Becerra of the Southern District of Florida. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM