The legal team representing Joe Carollo in a lawsuit an insurance company filed against the city of Miami has quit representing the former District 3 city commissioner after the city stopped footing the bill for his lawyers.
In a motion filed on behalf of himself and three other lawyers with the Coral Gables-based law firm Rivero Mestre, LLP, attorney Jorge A. Mestre said Carollo “has failed to substantially fulfill an obligation to the Firm.” A judge granted the attorneys’ request to withdraw from the case.
The change leaves Carollo without representation in a lawsuit filed nearly two years ago by QBE Specialty Insurance Company, which seeks to recoup millions in legal fees it spent defending Carollo in lawsuits filed since 2018. The case was slated to go to trial this month, but the judge paused it for 30 days while Carollo finds a new lawyer…