Jorge Maza
Jorge.Maza@kennedyslaw.com
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Education
- University of Florida, Levin College of Law, JD, 2011
- University of Florida, BA, 2008
Jorge Maza is special counsel in the Miami office. He represents insurers in insurance coverage, bad faith, and commercial litigation matters. He primarily handles high-exposure insurance disputes involving commercial general liability, errors and omissions (E&O), environmental, reinsurance, commercial property, and business interruption claims. Jorge also counsels clients on claims handling and policy drafting.
Jorge frequently lectures on emerging insurance topics and leads seminars for clients on trends in the law, bad faith avoidance, and claims handling protocols.
Prior to joining Kennedys, Jorge practiced law at an international firm in Miami.
Jorge is a member of the American Bar Association, the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance, the Cuban American Bar Association, and the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel. He is also fluent in Spanish.
Memberships
- American Bar Association, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittee, Co-Chair (2022-2024)
Qualifications and admissions
- Florida
- US District Court for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida
- US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Presentations and publications
- Co-author, “Applicability (or not) of Florida Interpleader Statute 624.155(6)(a) to “Wasting” Policies,” published for Kennedys (November 2024)
- “Insurer Loss of Attorney-Client Privilege With Outside Coverage Counsel: Practitioner Strategies To Limit Fallout,” presented for Strafford Publications (July 2024)
- “Construction defect summit: Florida,” In-House Client Training (February 2024)
- Author, “Courts Continue to Wrestle with the Boundaries to Florida’s Exceptions to the Eight Corners Rule,” American Bar Association, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee (April 2023)
- "Construction Defect Insurance Claims," presented for Strafford, Webinar (November 2022)
- "Property - The Truth will Set You Free: Navigating Insured Misrepresentations," presented at the 2022 CLM Focus (November 2022)
- "The Duty to Defend: Emerging Issues in Construction Cases," presented at the 6th Annual Insurance in the Construction Industry Conference (August 2022)
Report decisions
- Atain Specialty Ins. Co. v. T. Disney Trucking & Grading, Inc., No. 21-cv-01097, 2023 U.S. Dist. Lexis 164539 (M.D. Fla. Sept. 15, 2023) (no coverage for wrongful death case under excess liability policy)
- Caribbean Bay, Inc. v. Northfield Ins. Co., No. 22-cv-2318, 2023 U.S. Dist. Lexis 44043 (M.D. Fla. Mar. 15, 2023) (no coverage for stabbing case under commercial general liability policy)
- Northfield Ins. Co. v. Opinions LLC, No. 8:22-cv-874-TPB-CPT, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 224560 (M.D. Fla. Dec. 13, 2022) (no coverage for shooting case under commercial general liability policy)
- Anderson v. First Mercury Co., No. 6:19-cv-1389-Orl-40EJK (M.D. Fla. Jan. 4, 2021) (judgment on the pleadings in favor of commercial general liability insurer on $2 million consent judgment)
- Mama Jo’s, Inc. v. Sparta Ins. Co., 823 Fed. 868 (11th Cir. 2020) (no coverage for claim arising out of exposure to construction debris under commercial property and business interruption policy)
- Rockhill Ins. Co. v. Northfield Ins. Co., 295 F. Supp. 3d 1279 (M.D. Fla. 2017) (summary judgment on priority of coverage in connection with wrongful death case)
Insurance and reinsurance