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Visibility Rankings  | | #125 out of 1,453 lawyers in Boca Raton, Florida | | #46,999 out of 890,243 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Insurance Fraud; Insurance Coverage and Compliance; Workers Compensation Premium Fraud and Disputes; Commercial Litigation; Agricultural Law; Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) | | | Education | Southwestern University School of Law, J.D., 1989; University of Paris, International Law Program, 1987, Otterbein College, B.A., with honors, 1983 | | | Admitted | 1990, California; 1994, Florida; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida and U.S. District Court, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of California | |
| Memberships | South Palm Beach County and California Bar Associations; The Florida Bar (Member, Workers Compensation Section); Florida Association of Women Lawyers. | | | Languages | Spanish and Portuguese | | | Born | Findlay, Ohio, August 4, 1961 | | | Biography | Dean's List. Phi Alpha Delta (President, Sammis Chapter, 1988). Member, Trial Advocacy Team. Internship, NRCC and U.S. Rep. Ralph Regula, Washington, District of Columbia. Seminar Instructor: Premium and Claimant Workers' Compensation Insurance Fraud and Workers' Compensation Premium Disputes (FIFEC Annual Conference, IASIU Annual Conference, IASIU Local Chapter, Insurance Carriers, and Employers); Consultant for USAID and Consejo Nacional de Competitividad on U.S. Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (P.A.C.A.) and CAFTA-DR (Dominican Republic, 2006); Publications and Presentations, "La Ley Sobre Comercializacion de Productos Agricolas Perecederos de los Estados Unidos (Ley P.A.C.A.)" and (USAID, Consejo Nacional de Competitividad, Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana, 2006); "Ley Sobre Practicas Comerciales en Productos Agricolas Perecederos (Borrador de Anteproyecto de Ley), El Congerso de la Republica Dominicana" (Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana, 2006); "Freeze Debtors' Bank Accounts by Putting on the Heat" (BluePrints, A Blue Book Services Publication, 2006); "Introduction to Workers' Compensation Premium Fraud" (IASIU, FIFEC, 1997); "Detecting, Investigating and Prosecuting Workers' Compensation Premium Fraud" (FIFEC, 1998); "Legislative Update on Workers' Compensation Fraud Issues" (FIFEC, 2003); "Workers' Compensation Premium Fraud: An Interactive Case Study" (FIFEC, 2005); "Latest Trends in Workers' Compensation Premium Fraud" (FIFEC, 2007); "Workers' Compensation Claimant and Premium Fraud" (FIFEC, 2008). Voting Member, Chairperson of Premium Fraud Subcommittee, Florida Workers' Compensation Fraud Task Force, 2002-2003, 2005-2006 and 2007—. | | | ISLN | 905141068 | |
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