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SAMANTHA S. LOVELAND

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Samantha S. Loveland is a partner in the firm’s Jacksonville office. She is an accomplished  trial lawyer with extensive experience in the areas of transportation (automobile, marine, trucking liability), personal injury, premises liability, wrongful death, insurance defense, and other civil litigation matters.

 Samantha is a skilled litigator who is highly specialized in defending high-profile personal injury, medical malpractice, assault, and wrongful death claims in state and federal court. Her extensive trial and case management experience includes being adept at strategy and understanding complex issues. She takes particular pride in her communication with her insurance company clients including case status and paths to early resolution. 

She has represented the world’s preeminent insurers and their insureds, including the largest cruise lines, marine industry corporations, healthcare providers, and national corporations in a variety of diverse industries. In addition, Samantha has handled numerous arbitration matters before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution.

Samantha has received much recognition over her legal career whichincludes being named by Super Lawyers as a “Florida Rising Star.” She is a member of the Admiralty Law Committee for the Florida Bar, Florida Defense Lawyers Association, and the Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association. Samantha resides in Jacksonville Beach, FL with her husband and two children.

HONORS

PRACTICE AREAS

Admiralty & Maritime

Negligent Security

Personal Injury

Premises Liability

Product Liability

Education

J.D.,cum laude, St. Thomas University School of Law

  • Editor on the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
  • Moot Court Team
  • Student member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States

B.A., with honors, University of Miami

Experience

  • Successfully limited boardable damages at trial on the issue of whether or not Plaintiff would be allowed to board the total of all medical bills or only the amount paid by Medicare for the medical care received. Plaintiff had over $575,000.00 in medical bills, which were reduced to the amount paid by Medicare – approximately $60,000.00.
  • Order granting summary judgment on punitive damages in trucking accident case. Court found not only did Plaintiff not met the burden of proving whether the defendant driver violated any portion of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations – even if he had, there was no nexus between the violation claimed and the underlying accident. 
  • Obtained summary judgment in a premises liability claim against a national warehouse restaurant supplier when Court agreed the open and obvious nature of a parking bumper negated a duty to warn and that the duties to warn and maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition were not mutually exclusive.

Recognition

  • Named by Super Lawyers as a “Florida Rising Star”

PRESENTATIONS

  • Presenter, A Legal Guide: Passenger & Crew Claims In The United States, topics: Damages, Limitation of Liability, and Retaliatory Discharge and Penalty Wage Claims, 2018
  • Substitute Instructor, St. Thomas University School of Law, Admiralty II, topic: Removal and “Saving to Suitors” Clause, 2017

Memberships

  • Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association, Member
  • Florida Bar
    • Admiralty Law Committee 
  • Florida Defense Lawyers Association, Member

Community Involvement

  • Feeding North Florida, Volunteer (2020-2021)
  • Americans for Immigrant Justice, TPS Application Attorney Volunteer (2020, 2021)

Admissions

  • Florida
  • United States District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit