On February 24, 2023, JoAnn Hoffman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Broward County, Workers Compensation Division of the Florida Bar for her decades long work helping the injured in Florida.
How far have we come and how far
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I contribute an Employment Law advice column to The Human Resources Association of Broward County newsletter. A reader recently asked a question that I thought was important and I wanted to share.
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Broward County Circuit Court Months Away from Next Phase
Broward Circuit Chief Judge Jack Tuter of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit transitioned courthouses in his district to phase two operations in October 2020. At that time, strict compliance with coronavirus safety
When Hurricane Irma struck south Florida as a category 4 storm in 2017, it caused a widespread power outage that impacted over 6.8 million people. The impact of that outage was devasting for people sweltering in the Florida heat, but
Merlien v. JM Family Enters, 2020 Fla. App. LEXIS 10525
Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
July 22, 2020, Decided
No. 4D19-2911
2020 Fla. App. LEXIS 10525 *
DIVESTON MERLIEN, Appellant, v. JM FAMILY ENTERPRISES, INC., SHERIDAN 441,
The Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal recently held that a trial court properly apportioned a public owner’s damages among a program manager, engineering firm, and contractor. See Broward County, Fla. v. CH2M Hill, Inc., No. 4D18-3401 (Fla. 4th DCA
A "somewhat unique" set of circumstances did not prevent the New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department from concluding that a Florida offense involved a "conviction" and was "substantially similar" to a New York felony, requiring automatic disbarment. In
Broward County’s latest emergency order deems construction professionals “essential” and therefore exempt from mandatory closures to which many other industries are now subject, but employees may need to verify their status to authorities. On March 23rd, 2020, in yet another
