Fast Food Burger King agrees to $3.26B buyout by 3G Capital By: The Associated Press
Burger King Holdings Inc. is selling itself to private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26 billion.
Real Estate Kendall apartment complex sold for $28.5 million By: Paola Iuspa-Abbott
Aventura-based Acumen Real Estate Advisors bought the Sunset Gardens Apartments in the most expensive multifamily deal in Miami-Dade County this year.
Banking Gables-based BBU Bank acquires Puerto Rican bank By: Wayne Tompkins
BBU said it is the first expansion by a U.S. mainland-based bank into Puerto Rico in more than a decade.
G. Scott Vezina, Stuart N. Ratzan and Stuart J. Weissman
Jury Verdicts & Settlements Miami trio obtains $1.9 million from Miami VA hospital By: Review staff & VerdictSearch
Cancer patient and Navy vet Susan Atkisson suffered respiratory depression and nocturnal hypoxemia as a result of excessive morphine intake following breast surgery.
Jeffrey Streitfeld
Attorney General With nearly no assets left, receiver cut loose By: Adolfo Pesquera
Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld dismissed the receiver in a deceptive trade practices case brought against a Fort Lauderdale-based loan-modification company.
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
AIG AIG Company to receive $90 million By: Victor Li
AIG and former chief executive officer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg have agreed to settle a derivative suit claiming they used accounting tricks to mask problems at the company.
Judiciary Nicholas Lopane to replace retiring judge Frusciante By: Adolfo Pesquera
Gov. Charlie Crist announced Wednesday the appointment of General Magistrate Nicholas Lopane to replace retiring Broward Circuit Judge John Frusciante.
Appeals 4th DCA kills cane cutters’ appeal over wages By: John Pacenti A three-judge panel ruled a Palm Beach Circuit appellate panel acted within its discretion to reject an appeal by workers challenging a section of the 1838 state Constitution requiring nonresidents to post a bond to be able to sue.
Real Estate Two mobile-home parks bought for $22 million By: Polyana da Costa
Affiliates of Illinois-based Lakeshore Management bought the 389-unit Country Knolls mobile home park in Deerfield Beach and the nearby 277-unit Highland Village park.
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