FDUTPA Can Give Rise to a Claim Against a Person in an Individual Capacity

In Florida, there is a statutory claim under Florida's Deceptive Unfair Trade Practices Act. This also goes by its acronym FDUTPA, and is referred to as a FDUTPA claim. For more information in FDUTPA, please check here.  Did you know you can assert a FDUTPA claim against a person in an individual capacity? And this has nothing to do with piercing the corporate veil? In Thompson Nation Holdings, LLC v. Gonzalez, 50 Fla.L.Weekly D2030a (Fla. 3d DCA 2025), a customer sued her moving company's principal, individually, under FDUTPA. A judgment was obtained against the principal, and the appellate court affirmed the...

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