A local law firm has won a case against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, on behalf of a small Miami-Dade County municipality, which secured a reimbursement of more than $1.5 million in damages caused by Hurricane Irma in 2017. 

Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman attorneys Justin Luger and Roger Pou represented the village of Pinecrest and secured the award after an arbitration board ruled the village was wrongly denied public assistance funding requests under many categories of debris clearance and removal activities that occurred in the months after the hurricane. 

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