Brian Charlton Hunter

Of Counsel
Law School
  • University of Florida — B.S. in Business Administration (Economics), 1990
  • University of Miami School of Law — Juris Doctor, 1993
Admitted
  • 1993 Florida
  • 1994  US District Court, Southern  District
Practice Areas
  • Property Insurance
  • First and Third Party Insurance Coverage
  • Insurance Defense

Brian Hunter joined our firm in 2003. Formerly a partner in the Miami law firm of Hunter & Hunter, Brian now manages Chimpoulis, Hunter & Riedhammer, P.A.’s property insurance division.

Born in Coral Gables, Brian grew up on Florida’s Gulf Coast. He earned his B.S. in Business Administration (Economics) from the University of Florida in 1990, and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami in 1993.

Brian is a member of The Florida Bar and has served on the Bar’s Grievance Committee for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and is a member of the American Bar Association’s Tort & Insurance Practice Section. As a member of both the South Florida Claims Association and the Fort Lauderdale Claims Association, Brian has been invited to speak to insurance professionals on topics ranging from insurance appraisal, mold coverage, earth movement, and issues unique to condominium insurance claims.

In addition to general insurance defense, Brian devotes most of his practice to the area of first-party property insurance representing insurance companies, including claims handled by their special investigation units. He has broad litigation and trial experience defending residential, commercial, and automobile insurance claims involving arson and other fraud, business interruption, bad faith, agency and insurer negligence, sinkhole loss, collapse, earth movement, mold, and literally hundreds of claims and lawsuits following Hurricane Andrew and other named windstorms.

Brian’s expertise in defending property insurers resulted in an important court ruling in State Farm v. Castillo, 829 So. 2d 242 (Fla. 3d DCA 2002). The court held that State Farm’s earth movement exclusion unambiguously excluded loss caused by the construction and quarry blasting operations that have long been an important part of Florida’s economy. The Castillo decision benefits many Florida property insurers, who in recent years have faced a flood of similar claims.