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Metrowest condos rack up $3.5M in fines for construction defects

Metrowest condos rack up $3.5M in fines for construction defects

For years now, construction crews and scaffolding have been common around many buildings in The Hamptons at Metrowest, Orlando’s largest condo complex, while the landscape in many areas is bare and dusty.

The Hamptons has struggled to overcome construction mistakes, chiefly rotting wood beams and…

Digital Risk harassed executive because she was a woman making too much money, lawsuit says

Digital Risk harassed executive because she was a woman making too much money, lawsuit says

A former executive at Digital Risk, a mortgage IT firm in Maitland, has accused the company of harassing her – and eventually firing her – because new owners of the company in 2013 felt she was “making too much money for a woman,” according to a new federal lawsuit.

The suit also says the executive,…

Publix, Blue Cross settle brain cancer insurance lawsuit with Brevard employee

Publix, Blue Cross settle brain cancer insurance lawsuit with Brevard employee

A Publix employee has settled his lawsuit accusing Publix and Florida Blue of failure to cover an expensive treatment for his brain cancer called proton beam radiation therapy – which was approved by the FDA in 1988, and for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement in 1997.

Terms of the settlement were…

16 Florida lawyers face wrath of Orlando judges over 'vague, boilerplate' ADA lawsuits

16 Florida lawyers face wrath of Orlando judges over 'vague, boilerplate' ADA lawsuits

Federal judges in Orlando say they want to know why 16 attorneys have repeatedly ignored rules about filing lawsuits over wheelchair access to businesses in Central Florida.

And they are asking for ideas on how to discipline those attorneys. U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton recently opened a case…