Attorney James Stewart Cunha's Legal Cases

Personal injury

Teixeira vs. Allstate Insurance Company, Case No. 2012CA002908XXXXMB

Feb 15, 2012

OUTCOME: Mr. Cunha recovered for his clients a total sum of $197,500.00.

This matter arose from a previous case involving an automobile accident where a vehicle crossed over into the opposite traffic lane and caused a grandmother and her minor grandson to crash into the veh ... icle and sustain bodily injury. The driver in the other traffic lane was at fault. Mr. Cunha represented both the grandmother and her grandson, with the consent of the minor's parents. The parties reached a pre-suit global settlement in the sum of $180,000.00 for both the minor child and his grandmother. After receiving the maximum recovery for the minor, Mr. Cunha sought to pursue an additional recovery for the grandmother by focusing on her Insurer's (Allstate's) UM Coverage. The maximum additional recovery Mr. Cunha's client could have received was $20,000 under her UM policy with Allstate. When the insurer declined to provide Mr. Cunha's client additional coverage, Mr. Cunha promptly sued Allstate. During litigation, the case settled for $17,500.00. Therefore, Mr. Cunha was able to recover the total sum of $197,500.00 for his clients.

Divorce and separation

In Re: The Marriage of Jane Doe and John Doe

Dec 29, 2011

OUTCOME: Confidential settlement reached in dividing marital estate with a value substantially exceeding $55 million.

Represented Wife in divorce involving marital estate with a value that substantially exceeded 55 million dollars.

Wrongful death

Estate of John P. Jorge v. CEM Site Constructors, Inc., et al., Case No. 2009CA010791

Jul 21, 2011

OUTCOME: The parties reached a $4.115 million settlement.

Plaintiff, 35, a manager of a family farm and part-time supermarket clerk, was driving a pickup truck in Bradenton when his truck was struck head-on by a truck driven by an individual running errands f ... or CEM. Mr. Cunha litigated the wrongful death case against the defendants on behalf of the Plaintiff's estate and the surviving elderly parents.

Personal injury

Gloria Smith-Grimes v. City of West Palm Beach, et. al., Case No. 11-CV-81201

Apr 06, 2011

OUTCOME: On February 25, 2013, the federal jury ordered the Defendant, City of West Palm Beach, to pay Plaintiff $102,490.

Mr. Cunha sued the City of West Palm Beach and two of its police officers after they caused his client to sustain a compression fracture of her vertabrae and acute fracture to her ring finger on April ... 6, 2010. The officers entered Plaintiff's home to arrest one of her son's on a warrant that turned out to be for someone else. The case was litigated for over a week in February 2013 before a federal jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Commercial real estate

Arbitrage International Management, LLC v. Berwin, Inc., Case No. 502009CA039023

Dec 27, 2010

OUTCOME: Parties reached a Confidential Settlement

Dispute over contract.

Contracts and agreements

CFC v. Global Secured Cap.

Oct 01, 2010

OUTCOME: Prepared and executed new agreement which enabled the recovery of approx. $1.5 million in remaining funds to client.

Enforcement of previous agreement in the transfer of approx. $2 million to client.