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--44110- this issue Letter From Our Partners Letter From Our Partners P.1 Friends, Colleagues and Clients: Practice Areas P.1 Partner Spotlight P.2 We hope that your New Year is off to a successful and happy start! also like to thank News & Updates P.2 those of you that took the time to read our last newsletter and share your valuable feedback In the Know P. 2 and perspectives. We feel honored to work with such respectable and giving professionals within the legal industry. practice areas Based on the feedback we received, we have made a few tweaks in our Spring issue. Please Complex Commercial Litigation continue to share your thoughts. And read on to find updates from the firm, news on our Civil Litigation associates and partners, important terms, and more. Personal Injury & Product Liability Insurance Bad Faith Be sure to check out our website to find updated and relevant content. And don't forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @BCLCLaw. Sincerely, BCLC Partners MAIN OFFICE: WEST PALM BEACII. FLORIDA WWW.BUCLAWCOM I WWW.FACE&0OK-COM/BUELIAANCRITTON EFTA00601884 PARTNER SPOTLIGHT: BCLC Managing Partner Mark Luther Asked To Lead The Boy Scouts of America —Gulf Stream Council Attorney Mark T. Luttier. managing partner of the law firm of BCLC. has been named President of The Boy Scouts of America's Gulf Stream Council for the 2012 and 2013 calendar years. The Gulf Stream Council, which is focused on achieving excellence in provid- ing a quality program to a growing youth population in America at all levels of the Boy Scouts of America, serves over 10,000 Scouts and 3,000 adult volunteers in Palm Beach, Martin, Stuart, St Lude. Indi- an River, Okeechobee. Glades, and Hendry counties in Southeast Florida. News & Updates In his new position, Luttier will be responsible for supervising the Gulf Stream Council and its officers; assuring that chartered duties and obligations — national and local — are met; presiding over meet- • BCLC Partner Mike Pike will host ings of the Council and executive board; being a member of all Council committees including the RAISE THE BAR: Support Fu- administration, district operations, development, endowment, membership, marketing and prop- ture Women Leaders Event on erties; appointing the chairmen of all Council committees: and finally serving as a national coun- March 29 at the Historic Palm cil representative for the Gulf Stream Council. Beach County Courthouse. The Luttier replaces outgoing Gulf Stream Council President John Marion. According to Jeff Isaac, Networking event will benefit the Scout Executive and Chief Executive Officer of the Gulf Stream Council. Luttier's selection can Women's Foundation of PBC and be attributed to his leadership skills, knowledge of the Boy Scouts program. and long-term pres- the Girls' Leadership Institute. ence in the South Florida region. • BCLC announced in February that "Mark will not only be a great stabilizing presence for the Gulf Stream Council. he will also bring associate lawyer Benny Lebedeker us into the fold of the South Florida community thanks to his great connections and the relation- has been named a partner at the ships he has built here as a Floridian and established attorney,' Isaac added. "The entire board firm. Lebedeker, who has more and I are very excited about the energy Mark will bring to the position. We anticipate he will bring than 17 years of experience, joined the same hands-on, make-it-happen attitude to the council that has made him the successful BCLC in 2003 and has earned a lawyer he is today: reputation in the Florida legal com- "It is truly an honor to have been selected as president of our local council,' Luttier said. "I have munity as a hard-working trial at- been involved in scouting since my early years as a Cub Scout. As an Eagle Scout, I am a firm torney with wins in the areas of believer in the value of scouting for our youth and for the development of future leaders. Gulf investor fraud, commercial litigation Stream Council is fortunate to have the Tanah Keeta Scout camp, which consists of one square and personal injury. mile of land, available for our use, as well as the support of many members of the community from Boca Raton to Vero Beach. I look forward to working with everyone in the community • In early January 2012, BCLC Asso- throughout our council to ensure that scouting and its many opportunities and benefits continue ciate Dean Xenick was accepted to be available to our youth well into the future." into the Craig S. Barnard American Inns of Court, which is the West Palm Beach chapter of the Amen- can Inns of Court, a nationwide WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW... prestigious organization of judges, The BCLC team is committed to ensuring that our clients and colleagues are lawyers and legal scholars who educated about what's happening in the legal industry and news today. Within focus on enhancing the skills, pro- each newsletter, we will identify terms that we feel you should be aware of... fessionalism and ethics of their Personal Injury Protection (PIP) profession. • PIP is the law in Florida - a no-fault state — and therefore the minimum requirement to operate a vehicle. • The Law Firm of BCLC is committed to supporting the South Florida • PIP is a guaranteed health insurance policy for a person who is injured in an automobile accident. community. Some recent organiza- • When a person is injured in an automobile accident, if they do not have regular health insurance but they tions that the Firm and its lawyers have PIP insurance. they are guaranteed $10.000 of health insurance less the deductible they have have donated their time and energy chosen. In other words, the person injured is guaranteed $10.000 worth of health benefits. to, include: Palm Beach County Uninsured Motorist Coverage Elementary School Orchestral Stnngs Foundation "BLUEGRASS on • Underinsured Motorist coverage (UM) protects drivers when the other driver either doesn't have enough auto insurance or none at all. the GRASS" and the 2012 Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Mus- • UM insurance is especially good to have in Florida as the state does not require motorists to carry cle Walk at the Palm Beach Zoo. • bodily injury coverage. UM is the flipside to Bodily Injury (BI) insurance. In other states, the two are fairly different. In Florida. we've simplified it so that if the person who hit you is uninsured a simply underinsured, it won't matter. iha4 c As a result, BI insurance will cover you if you hurt somebody else...but what happens to you if the per- son who hits you doesn't have BI insurance and is fairy poor and can't pay a judgment? That's where UM comes in to play. ..MAIN Oil ICA: WI9T PArM BI AL .1I. f l ORIDA WWW.ICICIAW.COM I WWW.FACEBOOKCOM/BUftMANCRITTON EFTA00601885