Creative Management Partners LLC: Florida Taxpayers Hire Espinosa Law Group’s Trial Lawyers To Battle Wealthy Insurance Company

MIAMI, FL / ACCESSWIRE / April 28, 2016 / Creative Management Partners LLC: Announced today by Danny Espinosa, Managing Partner of Espinosa Law Group, his firm was retained by the Ballester family nearly four years ago to represent their interest against Citizens Property Insurance Company. Attorney Espinosa is a client of Beverly Hills’ literary agent Alan Morell, THE CREATIVE MANAGEMENT AGENCY, Creative Management Partners LLC for his upcoming book-to-film with James Goldberg: “Exposing the Wall Street Boys Club.”

Said Attorney Espinosa, “When an insurance company fails to settle a claim it could and should have settled, Florida law allows the insured to sue an insurance company for breach of the insurance contract and, if successful, then sue the insurance company for bad-faith claims handling for an amount that exceeds policy limits. However, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is immune from bad-faith lawsuits. Consequently, Citizens routinely denies legitimate claims and engages in scorched-earth litigation when suit is filed – knowing full well it has no bad-faith exposure.”

Said Agent Alan Morell, “Danny Espinosa impressed me with not only his tenacity and integrity as a consumer advocate, but also with his zealous legal representation in the James Goldberg case, and this is reaffirmed with the overwhelming success his minority trial law firm has had, including the recent victory for the Ballester family.”

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RECORDS PROVIDED BY ESPINOSA LAW GROUP:

Mr. and Mrs. Ballester, whose property was damaged when their neighbor’s home exploded on September 22, 2012, had their property insured with Citizens. Shortly after reporting their claim, Citizens denied it without anyone from Citizens even inspecting the property. The Ballesters were forced to retain trial attorneys that specialize in property insurance claims to represent them on a contingency-fee basis against Citizens due to their inability to afford counsel. For three years, Espinosa Law Group battled Citizens, who clearly was determined to wage a war of attrition designed to deter pursuit of the claim. Meanwhile, Mr. Ballester valiantly battled his fight with stage four terminal cancer. Citizens retained five separate large law firms to represent its interests and finally brought in its trial horse from Tampa, Florida, who makes a living trying cases for Citizens. Conversely, the Ballesters’ claim was prosecuted by three young, minority trial lawyers from Espinosa Law Group: Danny Espinosa, Jorge Padilla, and Federico Dumenigo.

After the fourth law firm Citizens hired was sanctioned for bad-faith conduct and instructing witnesses not to appear for depositions, Citizens hired a fifth law firm, Hamilton, Miller & Birthisel, to scare off the Ballesters and their attorneys. This battle finally came to a head on April 11, 2016, when a jury rendered a verdict for the Ballesters after a seven-day trial. “This trial had all the elements of a John Grisham novel: a David; a Goliath; a powerful insurance company with unlimited resources; the best defense witnesses money could buy; and, a bitter-sweet end, as Mr. Ballester’s health continues to deteriorate,” said lead trial counsel, Danny Espinosa. “For all the money that Citizens spent attempting to avoid its promises under the insurance contract, the jury, to their apparent dismay, learned that Citizens never saw fit to have anyone inspect the Ballesters’ roof even though we were seeking damages to the roof from the inception,” said Jorge Padilla. In fact, the jury learned that Citizens’ main expert witness, whose company was paid $5.4 million dollars by Citizens in the last three years, alone, inspected the Ballester residence – for the first time – during trial.

That the jury was offended by Citizens was evident from the amount it awarded the Ballesters. “We were seeking approximately $105,000.00 in damages, and the jury awarded $150,000.00 in damages,” said Federico Dumenigo. However, to obtain that result, the Ballesters incurred over one million dollars in attorney’s fees and $149,477.60 in costs, which will be the subject of the next battle between Espinosa Law Group and Citizens. Regardless of the outcome of that battle, one thing is for sure: Citizens will pass the bill onto its consumers (the public) to pay for its reprehensible and irresponsible conduct.

For further information, go
to:

www.EspinosaLawGroup.com

CONTACT:

Danny Espinosa, Esq.
ESPINOSA LAW GROUP
10625 N. Kendall Drive
Miami, Florida 33176-1501
Telephone: 305.655.1501
despinosa@espinosalawgroup.com

SOURCE: Creative Management Partners LLC

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