Overview
Allison Hartnett joined the firm in 1987 as a law clerk and has continued her career at Walton Lantaff for over 30 years. She has served as the Managing Partner since January 2020. Ms. Hartnett is the first female Managing Partner in the firm’s history. She oversees all offices throughout the State of Florida managing lawyers, staff, personnel, and all aspects of the firm.
Ms. Hartnett also continues to practice law in South Florida handling insurance defense matters in workers’ compensation, general liability, premise liability, and labor and employment claims. She has always represented employers and carriers in these concentrated practice areas. Her labor and employment practice includes handling claims involving sexual harassment, hourly and wage, defamation, retaliatory discharge, and wrongful discharge. Ms. Hartnett is certified by the Florida Department of Insurance as an instructor for continuing education credit for insurance adjusters and has lectured throughout the state on insurance defense matters.
Practice Areas
- Workers’ Compensation Defense litigation
- Employment and Labor Law
- Civil premise liability
- Medical malpractice defense
- Third-party liability insurance defense
Admitted to Practice
- Florida Bar 1988
- United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
Education
- University of Connecticut BA, Political Science, 1985
- University of Miami JD , Scholarship recipient, 1988,
Professional or Trade Affiliations
- Friends of 440 Trustee and Member since 1988
- Scholarship Fund/ Friends of 440 Trustee since 1990
- Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida/ Troop leader
- State certified lecturer for CEU credits to insurance industry affiliates since 1990
- Past member of Board of Directors of Miami Dade County YLS
- Miami Dade Workers’ Compensation Section of the Bar, Committee Chair
- Connecticut General Assembly past legislative intern
Honors & Awards
- Employer/Carrier Attorney of the Year Award , 2009
- Past President’s Award, Friends of 440, 2009
- Service to the Dade County Bar Association award, 2008
Representative Experience
- Somar Poveda v. ABC Distributing, Order awarding Fees, A fee of $150 an hour was found to be reasonable by the Judge of Compensation Claims on an hourly fee based case. Judge Medina Shore, Order 7/17/2012
- Recchia America Inc. v. Hall, 692 So. 2d 153 Supreme Court of Florida, Rebuttable presumption of intoxication which denies a claim was found unconstitutional, Employer must show intoxication has causal connection to the injury.
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield v. Public Health Trust, 546 So. 2d 1077
- Edelson v. Morgan Lewis & Chubb Group, 900 So. 2d 558
- Kelley Tractor v. Pagan, 821 So. 2d 1060
- SCI/ Hunters Run v. Howard 883 So. 2d 283
- Bellsouth Advertising and Publishing Co. v. Kerr 731 So. 2d 1273