"It would violate the principles of collateral estoppel to allow appellants to relitigate this issue simply because they recharacterized their claim as one of bad faith rather than breach of contract,” the federal appeals judges stated in the opinion.
June 29, 2021 at 02:53 PM
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Bad news for two Miami attorneys and their law firm.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that litigators Abbey Kaplan and Steve Silverman, and their law firm Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine in Miami were not entitled to over $1 million in attorney fees and lost revenues in their defense of a $14 million claim brought by a separate entity against them, which the Nautilus Insurance Co. refused to defend.
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L-R: U.S. Circuit Judges Charles Wilson, Andrew L. Brasher and Barbara Lagoa. Photo: ALM
