Press coverage and representative cases relating to the finance and insurance industry sector.
Recovered in excess of $30,000,000 in dozens of cases as South Florida counsel for one of the largest financial institutions in the country and a government sponsored enterprise prosecuting claims seeking recovery from title insurers for breach of closing instructions, fraud and dishonesty and against loan sellers seeking repurchase and/or indemnification for breach of Master [...]
Recovery of loan losses from title insurer where title agent failed to disclose flip transaction on title commitment and failed to collect borrower down payment.
Defeat of representation and warranty claims under mortgage loan purchase agreement on limitations grounds.
Motion to strike affirmative comparative fault defense granted. Defeated comparative fault defense raised by defendant appraiser targeting lender’s purported negligent underwriting.
Successful pursuit of losses arising out fraudulent business loan scheme involving dozens of identities and fabricated guarantor identities.
Successful enforcement of correspondent loan sale agreement; successful demurrer to defendant’s comparative fault defense.
Recovery of loan losses and fraudulent transfers arising out of property flipping scheme organized by Northern California realtor.
SJ Motion Granted. Judgment entered against closing agent due to failure to abide by lender closing instructions; defeated attacks at causation and lender’s purported negligent underwriting.
[COMPLEX FINANCIAL] Bench trial opinion; 11th Circuit affirming opinion. Judgment entered after trial against title insurer arising from its agent’s failure to collect down payment from borrower; standing defense defeated.
The first of four lawsuits was one of the first in the nation involving the newly created mechanism for judicial expulsion under the Uniform Revised Limited Liability Act. The second lawsuit was a direct action by Shulkins against DiMola and others for various corporate torts, and the third lawsuit was a derivative action by Schulkins [...]