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Cases actually mediated have raised these legal issues:

• Intellectual property such as patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, non-competition and non-solicitation;

• First-party and third-party insurance issues such as coverage (environmental, maritime, bodily injury, advertising injury), first-party claims (sinkholes, disability, fire and theft losses, hurricane claims), extra-contractual liability, subrogation claims;

• Employment (including class actions and collective actions) raising issues of Title VII, ADA, ADEA, Florida Civil Rights Act, whistleblower, FLSA, FMLA, ERISA;

• Education issues such as school desegregation, Free Exercise, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act;

• Commercial and consumer disputes such as antitrust, health care, banking, securities including NASD, real property, legal malpractice, construction, fraud, collection, collection practices acts;

• Torts such as medical and dental malpractice, products liability, premises liability, FELA, automobile negligence, defamation;

• Constitutional issues such as Free Speech, Free exercise, Due Process, Equal Protection, school desegregation, police procedure, jail medical; and

• False Claims Act (qui tam).

Reference:  U.S. ex rel. Alderson v. Quorum Health Group, Inc.,  171 F.Supp.2d 1323, 1337 n.41 (M.D. Fla. 2001)