Dismissal After Theft Of Atty's Files Too Harsh, Court Rules

By John Petrick (July 19, 2018, 4:21 PM EDT) -- For the second time, a Florida state appeals court has revived a woman's personal injury case that was tossed by a trial judge because her attorney missed a number of pretrial deadlines, finding that outright dismissal was too harsh a sanction given the attorney's case files were stolen from her office "literally overnight."...

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