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Ricardo J. Cata: Lawyer with Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP

Ricardo J. Cata

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  • Products Liability
  • Professional Liability
  • International Trade
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Insurance
 
University Long Island University, B.A., 1972; University of Miami - Graduate School of International Studies, M.A.
 
Law SchoolSt. John's University, J.D., 1975
 
Admitted1976, Florida; U.S. District Court, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida; U.S. District Court, District of Puerto Rico; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court
 
Memberships The Florida Bar (Member, International Law Section; Chairman: Legislative Committee, 1994; CLE Committee, 1996 and 1997); American Bar Association (Vice Chair, Professionals, Officers' and Directors' Liability Committee, 1998-1999; Member, Section of Dispute Resolution); Inter-American Bar Association (Member and Assistant Secretary and Co-Chair, 1996, Commercial Law Committee); Miami International Arbitration Society (Founding Member, International Arbitration and Mediation, 2008—); U.S.-Mexico Bar Association.
 
LanguagesSpanish
 
BiographyPublications "Inter-American Law Year-In-Review," The International Lawyer, American Bar Association (Summer 1997); "Service of Process in Mexico: Let the Plaintiff Beware," International Commercial Litigation , London (September 1997); "Seguros 'Claims-Made' en Estados Unidos: Fundamentos Judiciales," Revista Ibero-Latinoamericana de Seguros, Bogota, Columbia (December 1996); "The Resurgence of Mexico and South America," Mercado Asegurador (August 1996); "Product and Environmental Claims from Latin America Against Multinational Corporations on the Rise," Latin American Law & Business Report (July 31, 1996); "Emerging Markets Liability in Latin America," InterAmerican Law Review (Summer 1996); Co-Author, "A Practical Review of U.S. Product Liability Law," Business Mexico (June, August, October 1995); "Tort Reform in the U.S.A.," Mercado Asegurador, Buenos Aires (September 1995); "Venezuela - New Insurance and Reinsurance Law Enacted," Latin American Law & Business Report (July 31, 1995); "Opportunities for Insurers and Reinsurers," Latin American Law & Business Report (March 31, 1995); "Seguros 'Claims-Made' En Los Estados Unidos: Fundamentos Judiciales," Mercado Asegurador, Buenos Aires (November/December 1994); "Mediation and Hurricane Andrew," Mercado Asegurador, Buenos Aires (August 1993); "Novedades Legales en el Reaseguro de Estados Unidos," Mercado Asegurador, Buenos Aires (March/April 1993); "Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act - An Idea Whose Time Has Come in Florida?" Florida Bar Journal (June 1992); "Prodecural Aspects of Franchise Litigation," Manual of Franchise Law and Practice, Florida Bar Association (1985) ; Presentations "Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned," Swiss Re Mexico's Jornadas de Reaseguro, Mexico City (September 2010); Products Liability in the U.S., Hannover Re, Bogata, Colombia (April 2008); Hotel and Product Liability in the U.S., Munich Re, Acapulco, Mexico (November 2006); Hotel Liability in the U.S., Hannover Re, Cocoyoc, Mexico (September 2006); Products Liability, Employers Reinsurance Corporation, Bogota, Colombia (April 1998); Products Liabiity, Grupo Nacional Provincial, Merida, Mexico (September 1997); Hotel Liability, Grupo Nacional Provincial, Cancun, Mexico (August 1997); Directors & Officers Liability, Chubb de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (May 1997); Products Liability, Employers Reinsurance Corporation, Coral Gables, FL (April 1997); Products Liability, Manufacturing Executives, sponsored by Allianz Mexico, Monterrey, Mexico (March 1997); Products Liability, Asociacion Mexicana de Ingenieros en Seguros (AMIS), Mexico City (November 1996); Emerging Markets Liability in South America, International Security Management Association, Newport Beach, CA (January 1996); Issues Relating to Directors and Officers Liability in International Banking, International Banking Operations Association's Regulatory Compliance Conference, Naples, FL (September 1995); Recent Legal Trends on Insurance Claims, International Insurance Council's Round Table on Latin American Insurance Conditions, New York, NY (March 1995); International Dispute Settlement, American Conference Institute's International Business Transactions, Miami, FL (March 1995); Latin American Insurance Market - New Opportunities for Insurers and Reinsurers, The Florida Bar's Eighth Doing Business in Latin America, Miami, FL (March 1995).
 
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Florida Supreme Court: Asbestos and Silica Compensation Fairness Act Cannot Be Retroactively Applie
Ricardo J. Cata,Julie R. Evans,Edgardo Ferreyra, July 21, 2011
In Am. Optical Corp. v. Spiewak, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the Fourth District Court of Appeal’s holding that the Asbestos and Silica Compensation Fairness Act, codified at Chapter 774, Part II, Florida Statutes (the Act) is unconstitutional when retroactively applied to preclude...

Florida Law Raising Burden of Proof in Slip-and-Fall Cases is Retroactive
Ricardo J. Cata,Ronnie Guillen, March 10, 2011
A Florida court has addressed the issue of whether the recent statutory modification to the burden of proof in slip-and-fall cases can be applied retroactively. In Yates v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2010 WL 4318795 (N.D. Fla. 2010), thecourt found that Fla. Stat. § 768.0755 (2010) was procedural...


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Ricardo J. Cata
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
100 Southeast Second Street, Suite 3800
Miami, FL 33131-2126




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