DeMiles Law

10/16/2026

Our office is thrilled to announce that in a first party property insurance lawsuit, following a week long jury trial, in a case where our client was 77 years old, ill, could not attend any days of the trial, and had to testify virtually through zoom, partners Jimmy DeMiles and Dave Benjamin obtained a verdict in favor of our client.

Before the trial, the carrier had served a proposal for settlement for $1,000. Had our client lost he could have been responsible to pay defense fees and costs. Our client served his own proposal for settlement, seeking $70,000.

After two days of juror deliberations in a very difficult case, Jimmy and Dave obtained a Plaintiffs verdict of $135,000 for our client, and because we “beat” the proposal for settlement our client served on the insurance company, the attorney fees and case costs are payable separately from our client’s award.

09/27/2026

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1577343344425537&id=100064496602095

The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Citizens Property — the state-run insurer of last resort — may require customers to resolve claims disputes through binding arbitration.

The dispute, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation v. Victoria Quintana, et al., centers on whether the Legislature’s imposition of mandatory binding arbitration to resolve Citizens claims disputes in 2023 violates due process rights.
https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-news/supreme-court-to-review-citizens-mandatory-arbitration-requirement/

05/27/2026

https://www.wptv.com/wptv-investigates/citizens-arbitration-system-faces-constitutional-challenge-after-miami-judges-ruling?fbclid=IwdGRjcASDQMlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeK_1aLUj0od0n-JwemQfRla6bIk-Dmg2Fvqe2yTT3bR2bqG26NPMucF8pvHw_aem_KM3aI3w1__mIrCZfd--Tng

A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge denied Citizens Property Insurance Corporation's motion to dismiss a lawsuit and compel arbitration.

04/09/2026

Verdict alert! Partners James DeMiles and David Benjamin obtained a $3.3 million dollar verdict in Alachua County in a commercial property damage loss.

This was a covered Hurricane Ian claim where the carrier determined that the damages were below the policy’s applicable deductibles for each of the commercial properties covered under the policy, and the carrier paid our client nothing after they submitted their Hurricane Ian claims.

After presentation of our case we survived Directed Verdict in the dangerous RCV Policy but the carrier will only initially pay ACV trial trap, that causes many cases to fail, for lack of a thorough and complete presentation of the loss.

Despite a repair history that the carrier characterized as old failed roofs to the multiple commercial buildings, and the carrier argued our clients were trying to use their policy to get a windfall, our trial lawyers Jimmy and Dave were able to tell our clients story, persuasively, and get a Plaintiff’s Directed Verdict on one of the carriers key affirmative defenses, improper maintenance of the property, and thereafter obtained a jury verdict of over $3.3 million dollars for our client.