Florida Senate Minority Leader Gary Farmer said "[o]ur civil courts are meant to hold the big guys accountable. The proposals we're looking at now seek to throw all of that accountability out the door".

Marvel's Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter has accused an insurer's in-house attorney of scheduling a deposition with the aim of secretly taking DNA from water bottles and papers that Perlmutter and his wife had touched in order to pin hate crimes on the couple.

It was a trial the plaintiff's team said ushered in a "miraculous" discovery: that online litigation doesn't have to mean jurors lose their connection to a case.

"Now, there's not a whole lot to keep them [insurers] from doing whatever the heck they want to do because there's not going to be any legal recourse against them, so long as the mortgage is being paid," the homeowner's attorney said.

The ruling hinged on the maritime doctrine of 'uberrimae fidei,' which says boat owners have a duty to 'fully and voluntarily disclose' all material facts.

The attorney has been accused by the Florida bar of sitting "at the head of a vast campaign of unprofessional, unethical and fraudulent conduct" across the state.

The Coral Gables attorney has also had his law license suspended until further notice.

"The conflict between respondent and opposing counsel was an ever present cloud that erupted with nearly every objection," one judge said about the litigation.