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County attorney briefs panel on litigation workload, sovereign-immunity cap and outside counsel use
Summary
Rob Bridal, chief assistant county attorney for litigation, told the committee the office handles roughly 700–800 open matters, cited the county's sovereign-immunity cap ($200,000 per person, $300,000 per occurrence), said outside counsel is used mainly for eminent domain and that risk-management can provide payout figures on request.
Rob Bridal, chief assistant county attorney for litigation, briefed the Hillsborough County liaison committee on the litigation division's workload, common case types, insurance posture and use of outside counsel.
Bridal told the group the litigation division typically manages about "700 to 800 open matters" at a time and said personal-injury and wrongful-death claims represent some of the heaviest volumes. He named Morgan & Morgan as the county's most frequent opposing firm.
On monetary limits, Bridal described the county's sovereign-immunity cap as $200,000 per person and $300,000 per occurrence, and said proposals to raise the cap (some proposals discussed with figures up to $1 million–$2.5 million) had been proposed in…
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