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Today’s News-Press column is the seventh and final installment of our review of 2024 legislation affecting Florida community associations. Today, #Becker's Joseph Adams will look at changes regulating homeowners’ associations, focusing on new rules on architectural changes, governing document disclosures, hurricane protection requirements, and some miscellaneous changes. #CommunityAssociations #HOA #FLHOA

Thinking of our #legal friends on the West Coast. Consider me a Third Coast resource, if needed. As we say during hurricane season, "Hunker down!" I have found myself in tough weather events with deadlines looming from clients and business partners in other regions. It helps to have relationships in other regions during weather events that seem to come more often and with higher intensity than before. One of my law firm clients provides that type of coverage to their legal teams with resources in almost every state and a search to fill out that profile, nationally. If you would like to practice #law with that kind of coverage, message me!

Do you need to include all RESIDENTIAL DISCLAIMERS IN STORM RESTORATION CONTRACTS? Here's what Karen Ensley shared with #NTRCA. EBLawTexas.com #constructioncontracts #constructionattorney #lawfirm This is not legal advice.

Texas Free Legal Answers has created three new question categories related to Hurricane Beryl. So if you need some pro bono, head over. Other states' free legal answers programs have likely done the same. https://lnkd.in/g_jPfGfm #probono #probonolaw #texaslaw #hurricaneberyl #disasterlaw #lowbono #insurancelaw #employmentlaw #housinglaw

Hurricane season is here, and it's essential to make sure your family is prepared and protected. Here are some legal tips to consider. Your family's safety is our priority. If you need assistance with any family law matters during this time, we're here to help. #HurricaneSeason #BePrepared #LegalTips #HereforYou

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Last year, the Governor signed into law, the Flood Risk Notification Law. This law affects both sellers and landlords of residential and commercial property. It requires them to provide notice of flood prone areas to purchasers prior to when a transaction becomes binding and prior to when a tenant signs a lease or upon lease renewal if the person is already a tenant. READ MORE HERE: https://bit.ly/49WgOzD #lawfirm #realestate #realestatelaw #floodrisk #realestatelawyer #newjerseyrealestate #njlawyer

Mandating appraisal before coverage issues are resolved really does not seem logical or efficient. Although the Florida Supreme Court's reasoning appears to be based upon this policy's retained-rights provision, and allowing the trial court to determine order of resolution in light of such policy language. Important to be aware of retained-rights language, but my argument to the trial court would still be: let's resolve coverage first, because if there is no coverage, there is no need to engage in an amount-of-loss fight. #insurancecoverage #propertyinsurance #appraisal

When they go bankrupt or into receivership you end up canceled anyway. Homeowners need to make better decisions. Everytime the system is tested it fails. You can NOT do half a job, that is where the litigation stems from. All in One Policy with WInd and Flood is a New approach, a strategy PrimeIs pioneering that offers a Risk Share and dumps the deductible that is part of the problems, as well as co-insurance, separate policies do NOT work together! PrimeIs offering Solutions designed from our Katrina experience. Try a model with a successful history or keep doing the same thing over and over again and hope you don’t have a claim, never going to work, but it will be cheap up front but cost us all a lot more in the long run…….decisions!

Case management orders have been all the rage for recently litigated catastrophe matters. But these are coming to an end in Louisiana as the last of Hurricane Ida cases have been filed and set up for mandatory mediation. What does that mean? CMOs usually truncate discovery with a mandatory mediation. In other words, depositions don't happen. This means public adjusters aren't properly scrutinized within a CMO framework. When actually subject to deposition, public adjuster expert opinions usually folds like a cheap suit while cross-examined. And it doesn't take much effort to chop them down to what was basically the carrier's original adjustment of the claim. As we are now seeing, newly litigated first party property matters are rolling in and without the protection of a CMO. I like it this way. The normal rules of civil procedure cut to the bone of the factual issues via rigorous cross-examination. Do CMOs expedite resolution? Of course. But do they also allow a ton of trash fly under the radar? Overwhelmingly so. I'm glad to get back to normal so the Daubert motions unveil snake oil salesmen who have never swung a hammer. #litigation #claims #Louisiana