Which comes first, the promise of a sizable contingency fee or the Florida Legislature’s passage of a claims bill?

The answer is the fee agreement between, typically, one or more prominent personal injury law firms and a victim suing someone who enjoys the protection of sovereign immunity and damage caps. The example from this past session is $3.75 million in private relief to Victor Barahona, the victim of hideous child abuse that his twin sister, Nubia, did not survive.