Acknowledgments

• Author: Dennis J. Wall
• Pages: ix-xi

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I would like to begin these Acknowledgments by conveying my grateful

thanks for the assistance of Anne Dalton, Esquire, of Fort Myers, Florida;

James A. Edwards, Esquire, now a judge on Florida’s Fifth District Court of

Appeal; Dorothy Fleming Green, Esquire, of Orlando, Florida, and Profes-

sor Jay Tidmarsh of the University of Notre Dame School of Law, each of

whom read parts of the manuscript and whose comments and suggestions

were uniformly helpful and signicant. If there are any drawbacks to the

book that resulted, it is my responsibility alone.

Next, I would like to thank all the people who offered insights into areas

of the law that I otherwise did not feel I knew well enough at the time to

write about, but who have taught me by sharing their experiences, especially

John K. DiMugno Jr., Esquire, of California who is the editor of numerous

legal periodicals and the author or coauthor of several law books, includ-

ing Catastrophe Claims: Insurance Coverage for Natural and Man-Made

Disasters (Thomson Reuters West), and California Tort Reporter. Thomas

Barrows, a former regional insurance claims manager and now retired to

Raleigh, North Carolina; Larry Hill, Esquire, of Pensacola, Florida; and

Neal Blaher, Esquire, and Brian Wilson, Esquire, both practicing attorneys

in Orlando, are among those who also shared their experiences in areas to

which my own experiences did not extend at the time they benetted me

with their insights. In a similar way, Professor Jay Feinman, a Distinguished

Professor of Rutgers Law School, allowed me to pick his brain about the

publishing process, which was invaluable to me.

I contacted many lawyers involved in lender force-placed insurance liti-

gation. Although a relative few responded to my inquiries, I understood

why the majority of them did not respond due to the potential for sanctions

and other bad things that might happen to them if someone accused them

of breaking their condential secrecy stipulations. I thank all those who

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