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Insurance Journal AOB Webinar (moderated by Amy O’Connor, with Insurance Journal, using Q&A format)Participants:Barry Gilway, president/CEO and executive director, Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corporation;Logan McFaddin, Regional Manager, Property Casualty Insurers Association (PCI);Patrick Wraight, director, Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance;Paul Huszar, president and CEO of emergency remediation services company VetCor LLC

Florida’s most prominent trial lawyers in the past half century have a new designation – and a podcast to go with it: Titans of Trial.  In this new podcast series by the Florida Justice Association, we’ll meet the men and women who’ve not only won the big cases, but created positive social change by the rulings they’ve secured.  Along the way, they’ve also changed the way law is practiced today in Florida.Hosted by Paul Jess, Executive Director of the Florida Justice Association, the Titans

You may know Fred Levin as the father of the Florida tobacco lawsuits.  He rewrote the Florida Medicaid Third Party Recovery Act in 1993 to allow the state of Florida to sue the tobacco industry, eventually settling for $13 billion and forever changing the face of tobacco litigation in the United States.   But if not for a stubborn client who refused to settle an insurance case nearly 60 years ago, Fred might not have become a trial lawyer.Among his many honors, is the Perry Nichols Award -

Bob Kerrigan is as irrepressible as the sunrise over the Pensacola Bay that his law office has overlooked for the past 45 years.  Bob is one of the nine trial lawyers who brought – and settled – the famous Big Tobacco lawsuit by the state of Florida back in the mid 1990’s.  At $13 billion, it was the largest civil judgment at the time in the nation. Among his many achievements is the Florida Bar’s Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award.  He’s currently in pursuit of international human rights

Growing up as a kid, one of Mike Papantonio’s favorite books was To Kill a Mockingbird, with its sympathetic lawyer hero Atticus Finch.  Today, he’s a champion of the abused and victimized.  Mike has become known as the “King of Mass Torts” for his innovative approach to maximizing his cases and client recoveries.  It’s earned him the Defender of Justice award by the American Association for Justice, among many other awards.Mike Papantonio sat down with Florida Justice Association Radio