Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Florida

I hired a moving company to move me from FL to IL. I was told I had 9 mons to file a claim with the movers third party claims service. The nine mons will be up Jan 1st. I did this and now the claims service says they are no longer working with this moving comapny to contact the company directly. All phone numbers, web sites and e-mail are not working. My loss and damages are over 10,000. I want to file a small claims case and would like to find a lawyer that might be willing to take the case because I live out of state. I think the moving company and the claims service wasted my time so the time to file a claim would run out . any advice will help :)


Asked on 12/16/10, 11:43 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Shelly Schellenberg MI & FL private practice

Your question makes an excellent point that when you have a substantial claim against a party, ($10,000) that you should not wait around to bring your claim. While you could still file in small claims court, the limit is $5K, and if the moving company is out of business, who are you going to sue? You may be better off suing the company's insurance company but only if it, in fact, insured the mover for the sort and extent of the loss that you claim. Even if they are no longer working with the mover, a lot depends on the terms of the insurance policy that the mover had with them. Send all of your documents to a FL attorney, but be prepared to pay up front for a document review and legal analysis of the law as it applies to the facts of your case.

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Answered on 12/21/10, 1:48 pm


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