Our Class Action Cases

Discover Our Tampa Class Action Attorneys’ Successes

At Harmon Parker, P.A., we are committed to fighting for what is right. With the individual and the consumer’s best interests in mind, we fight hard to hold powerful corporations accountable for their actions.

Over the years, our team has worked on numerous class action lawsuits. Read on to learn more about our recent class action cases.

If you have any questions or want to learn more about class actions we have worked on, contact us at (813) 452-4144.

Lea Family Partnership LLC v. City of Temple Terrace

The City of Temple Terrace’s Rental Housing requires every property owner of a dwelling subject to the Program to obtain an annual rental permit from the fire department prior to leasing or renting its property. The Code makes it unlawful for any property owner to allow a tenant to occupy the property unless the owner pays a permit fee and files an application, which the City treats as advanced consent to periodic comprehensive property inspections. The Ordinance coerces payment of fees and property owners’ “consent to inspections” through threats of stiff monetary penalties and imprisonment, all of which increase for each day of non-compliance.

Lea Family has owned and rented at least six rental properties that have been subjected to the Rental Housing Program, all of which have been inspected multiple times. And, Lea Family has paid more than $3,000 in permitting fees. We filed suit in 2016 challenging the constitutionality of the Ordinance under the protections secured by the 4^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In March 2019, the Court certified a class of similarly situated property owners that were subjected to the Program, and whose properties were inspected at least once prior to a tenant taking occupancy. The City acknowledges that Plaintiff has not voluntarily and knowingly consented to any of the inspections conducted by the City; and the City acknowledges that Plaintiff has been faced with criminal charges, fines, and potential loss of rental income for failing to consent to warrantless searches of its rental properties pursuant to the terms of the housing ordinance.

Nicholes v. Combined Insurance Company of America

We filed this class action on August 23, 2016, alleging that Combined deceived West Virginia insurance consumers when selling certain supplemental medical insurance policies by leading them to believe those policies would pay them benefits directly when, in actuality, Combined would not pay them benefits because of their Medicaid status and instead would pay benefits only to their medical providers. After two years of hard-fought litigation, the case was successfully resolved in February 2019.