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Gabrielle Mercadante defends insurance, personal injury, and commercial litigation matters on behalf of clients, including insurance companies, airlines, general contractors, and large corporations. She is a member of the firm’s Insurance + Reinsurance Group.

A new law represents a major step forward to remedy Florida’s assignment of benefits (“AOB”) crisis, which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has described as a “racket” in recent years. On Thursday May 23, 2019, Governor DeSantis signed House Bill 7065, which addresses the abuse of post-loss AOBs for residential and commercial property insurance claims, by (among other things):
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