Merlin Law Group
Merlin Law Group Overview
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Merlin Law Group has 1.0 star rating based on 1 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
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Pros: His silk robes and pirate costumes.
Cons: His lies to the court and to the insurance companies.Consumers are not pleased with Customer service and Diversity of Products or Services. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Lehighton, Pennsylvania
Failure to represent fraud and perjury on the court by Merlin Law Group and their attorneys Charles Mathis and Robert Troutman
Failure to represent fraud on the court by Merlin Law Group and their attorneys Charles Mathis and Robert Troutman when into a secret stipulation removing the bad faith committing fraud against me and against court and and perjury perjury stating a court papers that I used to read when it was on truthful fail to do depositions and subpoena evidence to all policyholders looking attorney to represent you be aware of this firm Merlin Law Group in Redbank New Jersey and there attorneys
Denver, Colorado
Assignment of Benefits— Merlin Law Group “lies to court”
Following a 2013 Colorado hailstorm, Summit Park submitted a claim for storm damage to residential buildings. Following an insurance appraisal that concluded with Mr. Keys and an umpire awarding approximately $10 million for damage from the storm, Auto-Owners promptly paid the award while reserving its rights to recoup the payment based on irregularities in the appraisal process, including Mr. Keys’ partiality.
Auto-Owners demonstrated that Mr. Keys had numerous, extensive undisclosed relationships with the insured’s law firm, Merlin Law Group, and its clients, often working on a contingency basis for a percent of the recovered insurance money (and on some occasions for as much as 20%-30% of the award amounts). Auto-Owners argued that Mr. Keys was anything but an impartial appraiser, as he had significant and lucrative business dealings with the insured’s attorneys and had direct financial incentive to inflate appraisal amounts. The Court noted that the appraisal award signed by Mr. Keys was $3.47 million—47%—greater than the amount Summit Park’s own public adjuster calculated prior to the filing of the lawsuit. Auto-Owners further demonstrated that Mr. Keys and Merlin Law Group attorneys had formed undisclosed fiduciary relationships, including attorney-client engagements in which Merlin Law Group attorneys had represented Mr. Keys in litigation or had performed transactional legal work for his insurance businesses. The Court stated: “While Keys’ relationship with Merlin is sufficient by itself to render him other than impartial, the totality of the circumstances here make this conclusion unavoidable.”
That’s the nutshell. Ugly details, however, are found in the Memorandum Opinion and Order on the “sanctions” against both Merlin and its’ attorneys including the most severe of all sanctions, “dismissal”. It starts on page 8, paragraph 1 under the title: “Bad Faith.”
I find that Merlin—including Pettinato and Harris individually—acted in bad faith.
Merlin’s failure to disclose key facts about the Merlin-Keys relationship, namely that Merlin and Keys had worked on behalf of the same insured in dozens of prior cases and that Merlin attorneys served as personal counsel to Keys and Keys’ companies on multiple occasions. Despite these facts, neither Pettinato, nor Harris, nor anyone else from the Merlin firm ever corrected Harris’ disclosure that Keys “does not have any significant prior business relationship with the Merlin Law Group” or Keys’ own, nearly identical disclosure.
But that is not all. It appears that Merlin and Summit Park took steps to conceal the existence of the contingent-cap fee agreement under which Keys was originally retained in April 2015. [Emphasis Added]
When your writer first read the charges against Merlin Law, one of Florida’s leading plaintiff firms specializing in Florida’s property market, my first thought was vindication. After all, I’ve been building the case that Florida’s premiums are the highest in America due in large measure to the complicity between some plaintiff firms and some unsavory emergency responders within the ranks of public adjusters, water extractors, roofers and others.
- His silk robes and pirate costumes
- His lies to the court and to the insurance companies
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Almost 2 years now since Merlin Law deliberately Lost our case and abandoned us in the case, withdrew and cost us over $1,000,000. in damages/ loss.
Az Bar Assos. absolutely worthless and no lawyers want to help sue for this malpractice. DO NOT TRUST Them !!!
Go ELSEWHERE !! TERRIBLE FIRM...
I too am very badly harmed by Marlin Law group. I want to know if there may bae a way we can all get a class action lawsuit going against them for their unlawful, unethical conduct.
They seem to get away with it and the state bar assoc. is protecting them and doing absolutely nothing to follow the law or protect wronged clients. This is a big problem. If there is a lawyer who would pick this up, count me in!
I can be reached by facebook if not other means. I am Paul M Nelson of Arizona. my fb page is dusty paul nelson just be sure to provide a clear message and how to reach you. We definitely need to go after these dirty rats.
Ponzo Michael (Atty) told us to sell the house and leave all contaminated contents for buyer to dispose of in hazmat dump at their cost. The next week, we lost case due to "Spoilage causation" due to following his direction. He lies and denied telling us to do this. Az State bar ignores this and even after another lawyer from that firm testified to the same instructions, state bar assoc.
refused to do anything and black listed me. Merlin law is involved in unlawful and deceitful conduct. They harmed me badly and abandoned us/ withdrew a week later in June 2021. Need to find help very soon.
Also have witnesses and deposition evidence of our professional witness destroyed all evidence, further costing us everything.
We lost over $1 million and had to sign stipulated judgement to avoid defendants legal fees almost .6 million. Michael Ponzo and merlin law are wicked bastards and need to be punished.
I am a disabled Pennsylvania resident in 2016 I hired Merlin Law Group Attorney Charles Matis and Attorney Robert Troutman In which I hired to represent me and suing Liberty Mutual insurance Adjuster Daniel P. Baron and his boss TS Scott in the third-party company said they brought into my Claim Servpro owner Justin CDRN dry Cleaning Owner Erez and Mark 1 Dan Robinson The fraud deceit and failure to back up my policy by all parties exposing my family to moles making us homeless for three years while I was fighting him in court in the lies and deceit and fraud by Attorney Lily K Hoffman representing Liberty Mutual and Federal Court In Philadelphia Pa In Front Of Judge Windy Beetlestone Merlin Law Group and their attorneys going into a stipulation that I did not consent or was a part of committing fraud and perjury on the court and on myself and even though I brought it to the attention of Judge Windy BeetleStone she seem not to mind or care that the fraud against me and my family by these attorneys exposing us to mold causing financial mental and physical harm The nightmare that my family has suffer and health problems by the negligence and miss handling to mitigate the mold and water damage to my home by Servpro Owner Justin in which he stated what does he care what type of mold it is But what do you adjuster Daniel P P. Baron and his boss TS Scott were a part off and then cover all their lies deceit and mistakes and with the help of my attorney Charles math is a robber tremor from merlin Law group And even though I complain to their corporate offices and to Liberty Mutual corporate offices no one seem to care of what they have placed my family through but I’m not backing up my policy or contract and now I have been forced to sue Merlin Law Group Attorney Charles Matis and Robert Troutman and even though I complain to their corporate offices about their actions I didn’t find out that they were both fired and to Liberty Mutual corporate offices no one seem to care of what they have put my family through by not backing up my policy or contract and now I have been forced to sue Merlin Law Group Attorney Charles Mathis and Robert Troutman all the commercials are lies The *** the Liberty Mutual and Merlin Law Group and their attorney have put my family through To any family is looking for an attorney to represent them against insurance companies be where of Merlin Law Group and their attorneys because they’re so willing to commit fraud perjury and sell you out.