Practice Areas & Industries: Stephens Lynn Klein LaCava & Puya, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The firm has been extensively involved in all manner of environmental claims. The firm has had extensive experience in the defense of multi-jurisdictional asbestos litigation, in the defense of the Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Owens-Illinois and Okonite Company, including actual trial experience in the first asbestos claim that was tried in Miami. The firm has also been heavily involved in both Florida and multi-state Super Fund claims, and has developed considerable expertise in handling the defense of AIDS-related litigation on behalf of blood banks and bio-hazardous waste disposal service corporations. The firm also specializes in both the prosecution and defense of coverage actions stemming from the various forms of pollution exclusions, and is currently involved in a number of pending Florida cases which seek to secure favorable rulings for the first time in Florida concerning interpretation of the more recent forms of the pollution exclusion.