Jeffrey A. Rubinton

Mr. Rubinton is the senior founding partner of Rubinton & Laufer, LLC.  Mr. Rubinton provides each client with individualized advice and counsel related to all aspects of claims handling and litigation based on his broad and diverse experience.  Mr. Rubinton focuses on both pre-suit claims issues, including fraud and arson investigations, claims handling processes, and bad-faith avoidance, and claims-related litigation, including defense of high-exposure first- and third-party individual and commercial claims.

He graduated from the University of South Florida in 1986 with a degree in Political Science and is a 1989 graduate of Nova Southeastern University School of Law.  He is admitted to the Florida Bar and United States District Court, Middle and Southern Districts.

Mr. Rubinton began his career as a Staff Attorney for Legal Aid Services of Broward, Inc., where his responsibilities included representing tenants in litigation against property owners and governmental agencies.  Mr. Rubinton then accepted a position as a Senior Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida in the economic crime unit, where he was responsible for environmental claims litigation throughout Florida, as well as prosecuting and investigating consumer fraud.

Mr. Rubinton served as lead trial counsel on such highly publicized cases as State of Florida, Department of Legal of Affairs v. Father and Son Moving & Storage et al. and State of Florida, Department of Natural Resources and Department of Environmental Protection v. Kawama Club Condominium et al. and was a member of the Law Enforcement Coastal Protection Statutory Review Committee, National Association of Attorneys General Environmental Task Force, South Florida Chapter of the League of Environmental Enforcement and Prosecution (Chairman 1992) and was counsel to the State of Florida’s Oil Spill Response Team.  Mr. Rubinton handled claims for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in cases involving oil spill litigation, Superfund, illegal dredge and fill, destruction of mangroves, illegal dumping, natural resource damages, solid and hazardous waste, contamination of soils and ground water.

Thereafter, Mr. Rubinton continued his governmental and environmental practice while expanding his insurance defense practice after taking a position with the state wide firm of Kubicki Draper, P.A., in Miami.  There, he handled environmental litigation, tort litigation, and governmental law for private and governmental clients.  In addition, he counseled insureds on the purchase and sale of contaminated property, disposal of underground storage tanks, and cost recovery/remediation actions.

Mr. Rubinton then joined the statewide firm of Luks, Koleos & Santaniello, P.A. as a partner, and continued to focus on and expand his insurance practice throughout the state. After several years of managing and expanding his insurance practice, Mr. Rubinton and Ms. Alicia Laufer, who worked with Mr. Rubinton, formed the firm of Rubinton & Laufer, LLC, wanting to provide clientele with more personalized service.

Mr. Rubinton has lectured on the issues of “bad-faith”, premises liability, comparative negligence, environmental causes of action in Florida and unfair and deceptive trade practices.