Enrique D. Arana
Partner

Miami

Email: eda@jordenusa.com
Phone: 305.347.6876
Fax: 305.372.9928

Enrique Arana is a Partner in the firm's Miami office. His practice includes major litigation involving insurance companies and other financial institutions, reinsurance litigation and arbitration, commercial contract disputes, constitutional, environmental and land-use law.

Following graduation from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Kenneth L. Ryskamp of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Following his clerkship, Enrique joined Jorden Burt LLP as an associate in the Miami office.

Enrique Arana represents insurance carriers and financial institutions in a range of complex litigation matters in state and federal courts throughout the United States, including substantial class action litigation as well as reinsurance disputes. Enrique is a vice chair of Jorden Burt's class action practice team. He has extensive experience in consumer fraud, sales practices, high exposure punitive damages and appellate litigation. He also has extensive experience in First Amendment and other constitutional cases, local government land-use disputes, and major environmental litigation.

Representative Matters

• Zarrella v. Pacific Life Insurance Company, --- F. Supp. 2d ----, 2011 WL 5107231 (S.D. Fla. Oct. 25, 2011)
• Ricupito v. Indianapolis Life Insurance Company, 2011 WL 3820970 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 30, 2011)
• Bhatia, et al. v. Indianapolis Life Insurance Company, et al., 2011 WL 3820825 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 29, 2011)
• Zarrella v. Pacific Life Insurance Company, --- F. Supp. 2d ----, 2011 WL 3666587 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 22, 2011) ("Zarrella III")
• Chau, et al. v. Aviva Life and Annuity Company, 2011 WL 3156702 (N.D. Tex. July 25, 2011) ("Chau II")
• Paul, et al. v. Aviva Life and Annuity Company, 2011 WL 2713649 (N.D. Tex. July 12, 2011) ("Paul II")
• Drilling Consultants, Inc., et al. v. Pacific Life Insurance Company, et al., --- F. Supp. 2d ----, 2011 WL 3792408 (M.D. Fla. May 27, 2011)
• Chau, et al. v. Aviva Life and Annuity Company, 2011 WL 1990446 (N.D. Tex. May 20, 2011) ("Chau I")
• Zarrella v. Pacific Life Insurance Company, 755 F. Supp. 2d 1231 (S.D. Fla. 2011) ("Zarrella II")
• Paul, et al. v. Aviva Life and Annuity Company, 2010 WL 5105925 (N.D. Tex. Dec. 14, 2010) ("Paul I")
• Zarrella v. Pacific Life Insurance Company, 755 F. Supp. 2d 1218 (S.D. Fla. 2010) ("Zarrella I")
• Berry v. Indianapolis Life Insurance Company, 638 F. Supp. 2d 732 (N.D. Tex. 2009) ("Berry II")
• Berry v. Indianapolis Life Insurance Company, 600 F. Supp. 2d 805 (N.D. Tex. 2009) ("Berry I")
• Berry et al., v. Indianapolis Life Ins. Co., et al., case no. 638 F. Supp. 2d 732 (N.D. Tex 2009)
• American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Inc. v. Miami-Dade County School Board, 557 F.3d 1172 (11th Cir. 2009)
• Lee v. Monumental General Administrators, Inc., et al., 2009 WL 1362605 (W.D. Okla. May 14, 2009)
• In re Indianapolis Life Insurance Company I.R.S. § 412(i) and § 419 Plans Life Insurance Marketing Litigation (MDL No. 1983), 581 F. Supp. 2d 1364 (J.P.M.L. 2008)
• Lloyd's v. American Bankers Insurance Group (Arbitration 2008)
• Friends of the Everglades, Inc., et al. v. South Florida Water Management District, No. 02-80309 Civ., 2006 WL 3635465 (S.D. Fla. Dec. 11, 2006)
• American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Inc. v. Miami-Dade County School Board, 439 F.Supp.2d 1242 (S.D. Fla. 2006)
• South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, et al., 541 U.S. 95 (2004)
• South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, et al., 541 U.S. 95 (2004)
• Club Madonna and Leroy Griffith v. Jane Gross, Case No. 04-11708 CA 02 (Dade Cty. Cir. Ct. 2004)
• Westside Partners, Ltd. v. City of Miami Beach, Case No. 98-13274 CA-30 (Dade Cty. Cir. Ct. 2004)
• London v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 340 F.3d 1246 (11th Cir. 2003)
• Mike Costa Foliage, Inc. v. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Case No. 3D02-1344 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003)
• America Bankers, Ins. v. Alexander, 818 So.2d 1073 (Miss. 2001)
• Baron v. Best Buy Co., 79 F.Supp.2d 1350 (S.D. Fla. 1999)

Speeches and Publications

• Speaker: NAVA Government & Regulatory Affairs Conference, June 2009
• Speaker: NAVA Government & Regulatory Affairs Conference, June 2008
• Author: "Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: The U.S.A. as Testing Ground," E-Commerce Law Report, April 2000
• Author: Practicing Law Institute, Communication Law Handbook