Born Miami
Beach, Florida, 1968.
Admitted to bar: Florida, 1994; Georgia, 1996; U.S. District Courts: Northern
District of Florida, 1995; Middle District of Florida, 1999; Southern District
of Florida, 2005; Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 1999. Preparatory
education: FloridaInternationalUniversity,
Miami (B.S.
Communications 1990); Honors: Outstanding Graduate, 1990. Legal education: FloridaStateUniversity,
Tallahassee
(J.D. 1993), OxfordUniversity, 1992. Honors:
Book Awards Complex Litigation / Advanced Civil Procedure, Advanced Criminal
Procedure. Member: Dade County Bar Association; Dade County Defense Bar
Association, Spellman-Hoeveler American Inns of Court. Extensive experience in
civil (medical malpractice, personal injury, products liability, and civil
rights) and commercial litigation, and all aspects of insurance coverage
claims, including bad-faith. Dozens of trials and hundreds of mediations and
arbitrations. Published and lectured frequently on insurance coverage issues
and handling various civil cases from inception through trial. Reported
decisions: Wilson
v. Dollar-Thrifty, 286 Fed.Appx. 640 (11th Cir. 2008); Ibarra v. Izaguirre, 985
So.2d 1117 (Fla.
3d DCA 2008); Am. Surety & Casualty v. Lake Jackson Pizza, 788 So.2d 1096 (Fla. 2001); Morrison v.
Allstate Indemnity Co., 228 F.3d 1255 (11th Cir. 2000); Carnesi v. FerryPass
United MethodistChurch, 770 So. 2d 1286 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000);
Peznell v. Doolan, 722 So. 2d 881 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998).
