Law Office: Jason M. Seitz
As a Partner attorney who has been with Butler for the reason that 2009, Jason M. Seitz is an achieved legal professional and is a member of The Florida Bar. He generally focuses his practice at the defense of First-Party Property Insurance Coverage. Additionally, he handles Construction Litigation and other claims.
Jason received his Doctor of Jurisprudence diploma from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2005. While in law faculty, he earned the highest marks of his class in Criminal Law, and he earned honors for his paintings in Legal Research and Writing as well as in Appellate Advocacy. Prior to that, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1997.
Prior to becoming a member of Butler, Jason changed into an Assistant State Lawyer in Miami-Dade County where he prosecuted crimes starting from DUI to murder. Jason has attempted extra than 25 jury trials and has in addition large non-jury trial experience.
Publications
July 24, 2018 PUBLICATION Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Protection: Brief Overview
This article became at the start published for the National Insurance Law Forum on July 24, 2018.
Claims investigations involving recommend regularly encompass communications regarding his or her understanding of the records, opinions of relevant regulation, and person revieweds. Oftentimes, claim notes or different claim report materials reference all or quantities of such communications. Due to their sensitive nature, it's miles vital to be privy to what materials can also in the end be discoverable. Though the work product protection and the attorney-patron privilege are normally understood to limit discovery of sure materials, the satan is in the details.
June 20, 2018 PUBLICATION Perspectives on the ALI Restatement: The Plain Meaning Rule or Presumption?
The American Law Institute (ALI) voted to approve the Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance (Restatement) at its annual meeting on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, with sections of the Restatement being debated till the very last vote. The debate had resulted in many unique drafts of the Restatement, with the Council of Advisors to the Restatement Reporters approving Proposed Final Draft No. 2 on April 13, 2018. This turned into the version ultimately permitted with the aid of the ALI Members for the duration of the once a year assembly.
March 20, 2018 PUBLICATION Identity Restoration Insurance: Why Would I Need That?
When retired nurse Helen Anderson flew to visit her sick daughter, she permit her niece, Samantha, housesit. Though she had instructed her niece that no buddies had been allowed over, Helen located Samantha within the house with her pal, Alice Lipski, while she again. After asking Alice to leave, Helen didn’t assume greater about her friend being in her residence.
February 01, 2018 PUBLICATION A Theoretical Safety on the Trigger of the Duty to Defend
The Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals recently decided Selective Insurance Company of the Southeast v. William P. White Racing Stables, Inc., et al., 2017 WL 6368843 (December thirteen, 2017), a case addressing limits upon what statistics and prison theories may additionally supply rise to a duty to defend. In an unpublished opinion, [1] the courtroom held the district court docket erred in locating a responsibility to protect based totally upon a principle of liability which became not pled, although it agreed the information alleged within the grievance could aid a declare reputedly within the scope of coverage provided through the legal responsibility coverage.
September 23, 2010 PUBLICATION We Said What We Meant And We Meant What We Said! - Enforcing Contract Language Despite Assertions Of Bad Faith And Insurer 'Misconduct' During The Adjustment Of The Claim
This is one in all a chain of articles in the beginning posted in Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance Bad Faith, Vol. 24, #10 (September 23, 2010). 2010
[Editor's Note: John V. Garaffa is a Partner lawyer and Jason M. Seitz is an associate with the law firm of Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP in Tampa, Florida. Any commentary or opinions do not reflect the opinions of Butler or Mealey's Publications. Copyright 2010 by Jason M. Seitz and John V. Garaffa. Responses are welcome.]
April 23, 2010 PUBLICATION Is the Increased Cost To Repair Undamaged Portions Of The Structure A Consequence Of Enforcement Of Building, Zoning Or Land Use Ordinance Or Law?
This is one in every of a sequence of articles underneath Property Insurance Law Committee originally published in ABA Committee News, Winter 2010.
Media
Blog Posts
July 25, 2017 BLOG POST That Sinking Feeling: Sinkholes, Florida Law, and Some Questions Raised by means of The Recent Collapse in Land O' Lakes
The latest catastrophic ground cover fall apart in Land O’Lakes attributed to a sinkhole highlights the specific factors of Florida geology and the effect it could have at the risks confronted by constructing proprietors and their insurers. In significant and western Florida, the land generally includes a layer of limestone crowned by using layers of clays and sands. The limestone is a vestige of the shells and skeletons of marine life deposited for the duration of prehistoric intervals when that layer become at the lowest of shallow seas. Over time, limestone become fashioned and covered via layers of silts and sands. The limestone is slowly dissolved via groundwater, and constitutes a part of the aquifer.
News
January 02, 2018 NEWS OUR NEWEST PARTNERS
Join us in celebrating our most up-to-date Partner legal professionals! Congratulations to Sarah Burke, Aaron Jacobs and Jason Seitz!
