Trans Health Management, Inc. v. Webb ex rel. Webb

Appellants, Trans Health Management, Inc. (“THMI”), and its former parent company Trans Healthcare, Inc. (“THI”), appeal from an adverse $900 million final judgment entered following a trial on damages at which they were not represented by counsel. Concluding that the trial court abused its discretion by denying and striking the motion of non-Florida attorney Maria Ellena Chavez-Ruark to appear pro hac vice on Appellants’ behalf, we reverse the final judgment and remand for a new trial. Because we reverse on this basis, we do not address the trial errors Appellants assert — some of which…