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By Eric S. Adams, Melodie Khosrovani Shutts & Bowen Introduction Indemnification is a risk-allocation tool that shifts responsibility for a loss from one party to another. In Florida, indemnification may arise either through an express contractual provision or under the doctrine of common law indemnity. Understanding the distinction is critical because different legal principles and...Read More

By Louis T. M. Conti and Gary I. Teblum This Part III article is the third of a three-part series designed to give readers the “what, how, and why” of Florida’s new protected series LLC legislation (§§605.2101-605.2802 of the Florida Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, F.S. Ch. 605).[1] This article provides more in-depth guidance on continuing and new filings with the...Read More

By Michael Kolcun and Amani Ambay Resolving a conflict among the DCAs, Florida’s Supreme Court settles the dispute over the standard for pleading punitive damages: the clear and convincing standard does not apply. Perlmutter v. Federal Ins. Co., __ So.3d __,  2026 WL 1689765 (Fla. June 11, 2026), arose from an alleged defamatory hate mail...Read More