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There are many defenses to a claim for breach of contract. These defenses may be divided into two separate groups: Affirmative Defenses and defenses that amount to a denial.

In this blog post, contract lawyer Richard P. Spence discusses the pending business litigation matter pending between Mid Florida Cancer Centers and Advent Health (formerly Florida Hospital). For about four years now, Mid Florida Cancer Centers (Mid Florida) has been pursuing claims against Advent for breach of contract and violation of antitrust and kickback laws.

Boeing has been sued by a Russian aircraft leasing company for breach of contract arising out of the company’s order of thirty-five of Boeing’s troubled 737 Max aircraft. Avia Capital Services is a Russian aircraft leasing company with ties to the Russian government.

Rich The Kid is in some hot water with Fashion Nova. The rapper has been ordered to pay the retail company $130,000 for a breach of contract.

Warner Brothers studios may get sued for breach of contract thanks to its recent announcement that it would send all seventeen of its movies scheduled for release in 2021 to HBO Max at the same time they’re released to studios. This announcement came as an unpleasant surprise to some, including Legendary Entertainment, the company that helped finance recently filmed buy unreleased blockbusters to come like “Dune” and “Godzilla vs. Kong.”

Boeing has been sued again for breach of contract arising out of the 737 Max jetliner. We previously discussed a similar lawsuit filed by a Russian aircraft leasing company in this Orlando contract lawyer blog post.

Superstar Madonna has been sued for breach of contract by an irate fan after the start date for her show in Miami was pushed back to 10:30 pm after he bought the tickets. A Florida man named Nate Hollander hired a lawyer to file a class action lawsuit against Madonna and LiveNation, the promoter, in the local circuit court alleging that she breached her contract and negligently misrepresented the facts to induce him to buy the tickets.

On November 6, 2019 and after a nine-day jury trial in Miami, Florida, KipuHealth won a judgment for $19.5 Million against ZenCharts, for breach of contract and unfair competition. KipuHealth developed its proprietary cloud record keeping system “KipuEMR,” which is widely used by addiction treatment centers throughout the country to organize patient data and records without using paper.

Are you ready to rumble? It’s a battle between heavyweights Hertz Corporation and Accenture, LLP. At the end of April 2019 Hertz sued Accenture in the Southern District of New York for claims that Accenture breached the parties’ contract by failing to deliver a functional website or mobile app.

In this Orlando contract lawyer blog post we look at a federal court decision that found a company’s privacy policy did not constitute a contract. McGarry v. Delta Air Lines, Case No. CV- 18-9827 (C.D. CA June 18, 2019).