In Quiroga v. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, 35 Fla. L. Weekly D767a (Fla. 3DCA 2010), the Florida Third District Court of Appeal invalidated a law firm’s charging lien for unpaid legal fees that was asserted against the collected proceeds of an insurance claim for a former client, Jesse Quiroga.

Attorneys with the Miami-based law firm of Katzman Garfinkel and Rosenbaum collected monies from an insurance company for unpaid damages to Quiroga’s home. After collecting those proceeds, Quiroga fired the attorneys and refused to pay any legal fees and also claimed that the law firm could not deduct such fees from the insurance proceeds because they were homestead protected.

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