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9100 S. Dadeland Blvd., Suite 1800
Miami, FL 33156
T: 305.374.1212 F: 305.374.7846
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402 Applerouth Lane, Suite 2C
Key West, FL 33040
T: 305.509.7300 F: 305.374.7846
view location | map locationOne East Broward Boulevard, Suite 1600
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
T: 954.768.0011 F: 954.768.0514
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West Palm Beach, FL 33401
T: 561.640.0303 F: 561.640.0524
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400 North Ashley Drive, Suite 1200
Tampa, FL 33602
T: 813.204.9776 F: 813.204.9660
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Orlando, FL 32801
T: 407.245.3630 F: 407.245.7685
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Ocala, FL 34471
T: 352.622.4222 F: 352.622.9122
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Jacksonville, FL 32202
T: 904.396.0062 F: 904.396.0380
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Pensacola, FL 32502
T: 850.434.0003 F: 850.434.0223
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1705 Metropolitan Boulevard, Suite 202
Tallahassee, FL 32308
T: 850.222.5188 F: 850.222.5108
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13350 Metro Parkway, Suite 401
Fort Myers, FL 33966
T: 239.334.8403 F: 239.939.0700
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11 North Water Street, Suite 10290
Mobile, Alabama 36602
T: 251.308.3351 F: 251.287.1624
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800 5th Avenue, Suite 4100
Seattle, WA 98104
T: 206.453.3030 F: 206.829.9046
view location | map locationIn 1963, Gene Kubicki founded the firm based on dedication to excellence. The same high standards have been maintained for over five decades -- years which have seen the firm’s ranks swell to over 150 attorneys.
Our team knows return clients are the life blood of any law firm and this is why we ensure client satisfaction by an exacting attention to service and quality. Client service coupled with a spectacular work ethic, makes our team hard to beat.
Kubicki Draper is committed to fostering an environment of equal opportunity for success and believes diversity is not only a moral imperative, but is also sound business practice.
In response to the growing needs of its clients, the firm began expanding in the early 1980's and today is a diverse full-service law firm providing trial, appellate, coverage, commercial and real estate transaction services.
Kubicki Draper enjoys a national reputation for expertise in the handling of complex, high stakes litigation matters, as well as, appellate, general commercial and real estate practice.
With a dozen offices throughout the State of Florida and other key points in the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississipi, as well as in Seattle, Washington, our firm is familiar to every venue statewide and will never get home-teamed.
For questions about our services and/or to assign a new matter, please contact Brad McCormick.
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All our best wishes to you and your family as preparations are made and we await more information about the impact Dorian will have on the Atlantic Coast.
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It was an honor and a pleasure for Kubicki Draper to support the National African American Insurance Association,(NAAIA), Florida Chapter's Fall Meeting recently #NAAIA. Charles Watkins, Anthony Atala and Charles Kondla put on a great presentation about Insurance bad faith avoidance, and Brad McCormick participated on a panel led by Maria Abate that presented “Unleashing the Power of Diversity.” Brad and fellow panelists Maria Dantes-Sanchez, Linc Rogers and Ravi Parekh talked about the importance of promoting #diversity and #inclusion in the insurance and legal professions. Michael Chang, CEO for Sompo Global Risk Solutions, gave an inspiring Keynote presentation about everything from developing a personal brand to being proactive about hiring diverse talent. Overall what a fantastic event! We were so proud to be a part of it and look forward to more exciting times to come.
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It is our pleasure to invite all claims professionals to our First Party Property Conference on April 26 in Tampa, Florida!
The event is complimentary and is designed to provide guests with information that will assist them in claims handling and management.
All courses have been approved by the State of Florida, and attendees will be eligible to receive up to six Florida Continuing Education Credits.
The great program we have lined up is as follows:
This course will provide an overview of an insured’s obligations under a property insurance policy after a loss occurs and once the claim is submitted to the carrier. Guests will learn how a failure to comply with those obligations can affect coverage and any subsequent litigation, and why it is important to understand the applicable legal principles at the adjusting level of handling the claim.
This course will teach insurance professionals how to evaluate and defend attorney fee claims. It will include an overview of procedures and practices and will go over how to assess hours and rates claimed, fee entitlement and how to contest the claim presented under the applicable law.
This presentation will provide a basic primer on civil remedy notices of insurer violations (CRNs) under Florida’s bad faith statute, §624.155, Fla. Stat. It will address what they are and why they are important, as well as the requirements for a CRN and CRN responses. It will also touch on the confession of judgment rule and its relationship to “curing” a CRN.
This panel discussion and presentation will focus on the use of modern technology including 3D scanners, drone, and computer animation to assist property insurers, their insureds, and defense counsel in firs-party matters beginning with the underwriting process, through anticipated loss analysis, and resulting insurance claims and litigation. The changing world and decreasing cost of technological aids have changed the way properties are designed, insured, forensically analyzed, and litigated. Examples of some of the new tools and their applications will be shown as part of the presentation.
The course will provide an overview of how to maneuver through and properly adjuster a roofing claim, how to issue spot and address roofing issues within a public adjuster’s estimate and field adjuster’s estimate, how to calculate a roof replacement, when repair is a viable option and what you should expect from your field adjuster on any roofing claim.
This presentation will focus on analyzing whether a loss is the result of wind and/or rain to assist claims examiners, insurance industry professionals and defense counsel in first-party homeowners and commercial matters to properly analyze the cause of damage, particularly for a Hurricane loss, and make an early determination as to coverage. The course will also address evolving case law in the area of concurrent causation and valued policy law, which should be considered in determining whether a loss is covered under a homeowners or commercial insurance policy.
Space is limited, so register today!
For questions or registration information, please contact Aileen Diaz at ad@kubickidraper.com.
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The case, involving a minor plaintiff who is the daughter of the plaintiff attorney, and who suffered serious injury to her knee, low back and neck, began at KD when Sharon Degnan, in the Orlando office, and Laurie Adams and Melonie Bueno, in the West Palm Beach office, were asked to take over the defense of a UM case that was set for trial, had a pending summary judgment motion filed against the insurer, as well as several discovery sanction hearings coming up. While it originally looked bleak, Sharon successfully developed and raised a UM coverage defense of first impression in Florida, to which multiple trial judges agreed, as well as the Fourth District Court of Appeal– that a plaintiff is not entitled to UM coverage when a vehicle is used as a premises.
The negligence claim against the tortfeasor in the UM case alleged negligent personal training in a Mobile Gym. Without Florida case law on point, Sharon argued that an exclusion in the policy, which excluded from the definition of “uninsured auto” a “land motor vehicle . . . located for use as a . . .residence or premises” applied to preclude UM coverage from being owed since the Mobile Gym was not being used as a motor vehicle, but rather as a premises—a gym—while plaintiff was weight training. See opinion HERE.
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