While Florida encourages a competitive market for their businesses to offer a great experience for their consumers, sometimes competitive behavior can go too far. When one party interferes with the relationships or contracts of another party with the sole intent of...
Running a business is no small feat. For many business owners in Florida and elsewhere, this means efforts to ensure the business is running smoothly but also prevent harms caused to the business itself through its business dealings. While businesses can be proactive...
Business owners can experience wins and losses as the work to grow their enterprises. Often, they must associate with other parties and entities in order to find opportunities to expand. In Florida, that can mean entering into contracts to create business...
When someone makes false statements about you on social media or in a public forum, their words can damage your reputation and harm your business endeavors for years to come. If you are the victim of defamatory statements, you may have the right to file a legal claim...
To succeed, businesses must do something that there's a demand for and do it well. Of course, there are many issues that impact the chances a company has to be profitable. Businesses in Florida should be aware that they will sometimes need to protect their good name...
When companies or individuals decide to work together, they enter into a legal contract. That contract exists to make sure that both sides adhere to the terms of the agreement that they’ve entered into. The contract lists out things like the terms involved, what one...
An intentional tort means the person committed an act toward or person or property knowing there would be consequences. A person can also be compensated if they are found to be a victim of an intentional tort in business. Intentional business torts can be classified...
The Florida Spine and Joint Institute has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Geico, alleging that the insurance giant has systematically committed fraud with personal injury protection claims. FSJI claims that Geico has routinely denied payments for treatment that...
When an unhappy customer or a frustrated former employee slanders your business, you may wonder if you have recourse against them. Their comments may be untrue, but do they have the malicious intent of harming your livelihood? If so, they qualify as defamation. You...
An errant text message or two is all it takes for your business to end up in court. A Tennessee resident has filed a federal lawsuit over unsolicited text messages he received from Florida's largest distributor of medical marijuana. Many of the state's 22 licensed...
