Terms of Service

These Terms of Service are between you and CoverageCases LLC ("CoverageCases," "we," "us," or "our"). Our public business address is 7402 North 56th Street, Suite 810 PMB 1013, Tampa, Florida 33617, and our support email is admin@coveragecases.com.

These Terms are version coveragecases-platform-v1.8 and have an effective timestamp of 2026-09-04T20:35:00.000Z. They are not effective unless that exact version and timestamp are activated server-side. You accept them only by affirmatively selecting and submitting every required acknowledgement. Merely visiting, continuing to hold an account, or using a non-marketplace account function does not record assent. Prior-version assent remains preserved but does not authorize browsing, posting, or accepting after v1.8 becomes current.

CoverageCases provides technology that allows attorneys to locate and communicate with other attorneys concerning temporary coverage of existing client matters. CoverageCases is not a law firm, does not provide legal services, does not establish an attorney-client relationship, and does not refer prospective clients, recommend or rank attorneys, or determine whether an attorney is appropriate for a particular matter.

CoverageCases is a business-to-business technology platform for Florida attorneys seeking or offering discrete court-appearance coverage. CoverageCases does not practice law, provide legal services, represent clients, create an attorney-client relationship with a user or client, supervise either attorney, or become a party to an attorney engagement.

CoverageCases does not connect prospective clients or members of the public with lawyers and does not refer, recommend, rank, select, or endorse lawyers. The owner has re-adopted the documented operating classification that the attorney-only, zero-engagement-fee-share product is not a qualifying provider under Rule 4-7.22, Rules Regulating The Florida Bar. This is not an approval, formal opinion, or binding determination by The Florida Bar. Any material change to the model requires renewed review.

CoverageCases may confirm a user’s identity through Stripe Identity and compare identifying information with publicly available Florida Bar records. Verification means only that specified identity and public-record fields matched at the time shown. It is not an endorsement by The Florida Bar or CoverageCases and does not establish competence, conflicts clearance, insurance coverage, disciplinary history, or suitability for any assignment.

Initial approval requires verified account information; a Stripe Identity check using a government-issued photo ID and matching selfie; a canonical Florida Bar number supplied by the user; and the user's affirmative certification that the user is currently an active Florida attorney in good standing and authorized and eligible for the activity undertaken. CoverageCases does not describe the supplied Bar number as officially confirmed or display a dated public-record match result unless later matching against an official Florida Bar roster actually occurs.

You certify at signup, and continuously while using the marketplace, that you are currently an active Florida Bar member in good standing and authorized and eligible for the activity you undertake. You agree to stop marketplace use promptly and notify CoverageCases if that changes. Each marketplace use reaffirms this certification. When official roster data becomes available, CoverageCases may reconcile the supplied Bar number and name, flag or investigate mismatches, and suspend or restrict an account that cannot be reconciled. CoverageCases does not independently determine current good standing. Identity or later roster matching does not replace your certification or either attorney's independent professional checks.

You must provide accurate information, maintain control of your credentials, keep your contact and Bar information current, and promptly report suspected unauthorized access. Verification is a point-in-time control, not a guarantee of identity, competence, availability, current standing, or suitability for any engagement.

A requesting attorney may post a proposed coverage opportunity, and an eligible coverage attorney may independently decide whether to accept it. Acceptance creates a structured platform engagement record and releases each attorney's name, email address, and telephone number to the other. CoverageCases does not provide attorney-to-attorney messaging.

The displayed coverage compensation is a proposed engagement term only. CoverageCases does not collect, charge, route, hold, escrow, transfer, refund, or take a percentage or share of attorney-to-attorney engagement compensation. The attorneys must agree and settle that compensation directly outside CoverageCases under their separate written agreement.

CoverageCases may separately charge the posting attorney a fixed platform posting fee disclosed before publication. That fee is not deducted from, calculated from, or contingent on attorney compensation, any legal fee, a case value, an hourly rate, or an outcome. A posting-fee Checkout creates only a CoverageCases platform charge and never a Stripe attorney-engagement charge, transfer, application fee, or payout.

Before substantive work begins, the attorneys must make a separate written agreement addressing scope, authority, compensation, payment timing, cancellation, client communication or consent, confidentiality, conflicts, competence, supervision, trust-account and fee-division requirements, taxes, records, and all other professional obligations.

CoverageCases charges only the separately disclosed fixed platform fees. CoverageCases does not receive a percentage of attorney compensation, client legal fees, recoveries, settlements, or results.

Requesting and covering attorneys are independently responsible for structuring their compensation in compliance with applicable professional rules, including requirements governing divisions of fees between lawyers in different firms. CoverageCases does not determine whether a particular payment arrangement constitutes a division of legal fees.

Each attorney remains independently responsible for authority to engage or appear, conflicts, competence, scope, deadlines, client communication and consent, confidentiality, supervision, current eligibility, court and local rules, and every other professional duty.

Before acceptance, a coverage attorney must affirm engagement-specific professional-responsibility checks and the requirement for a separate written engagement. A platform verification result, the official membership record, or another user's statement does not determine whether a particular engagement is professionally permissible.

Submit a government ID and selfie only through the Stripe-hosted Identity flow. Do not place identity documents, facial or biometric material, payment credentials, privileged material, complete dates of birth, government identification numbers, financial or health information, passwords, authentication secrets, unredacted discovery, or other sensitive records in CoverageCases forms, uploads, support email, or marketplace fields.

The CoverageCases application database does not store copies of the ID or selfie, extracted identification number, date of birth, address, or biometric identifiers. Stripe collects and stores submitted verification data as described in the Privacy Policy and Stripe's privacy materials. CoverageCases is not a confidential document repository or secure case-file transfer service; attorneys must use a separately evaluated secure channel for substantive files and confidential materials.

You may not use CoverageCases unlawfully; impersonate another person; submit false, misleading, or unauthorized material; probe or disrupt security; scrape, republish, or resell marketplace information; introduce malicious code; interfere with other users; or use the service to solicit or match prospective clients with lawyers.

You may not imply that CoverageCases, Stripe, or The Florida Bar recommends, endorses, supervises, guarantees, or has independently confirmed the current eligibility of any attorney, engagement, or result.

Every marketplace participant, including an administrator participating as an attorney, must maintain one individually purchased active paid CoverageCases subscription. CoverageCases Basic is $19.00 USD per month and CoverageCases Pro is $39.00 USD per month, plus any applicable tax. CoverageCases offers no firm-wide, pooled, unlimited-firm, or one-subscription-for-multiple-attorneys plan. Each attorney remains individually registered, verified, attributable, responsible, and subscribed.

Both plans permit an otherwise eligible attorney to maintain a verified profile, browse, post, accept, use payment and coverage-history tools, and receive basic alerts. Pro adds instant and multi-county alerts, saved courthouse and hearing preferences, advanced availability and filtering, calendar-aware and already-nearby matching, enhanced reporting, and other features identified in the product at the time of purchase. Feature availability remains subject to verification, configuration, marketplace liquidity, and separate release controls.

Trialing, past_due, unpaid, canceled, and every status other than exact active do not authorize new marketplace use. Identity verification, account and privacy management, legal-document review, billing management, and existing-engagement wind-down remain available only as specifically described. Subscription price, immediate initial charge, renewal, plan changes, cancellation, and refund terms are governed by coveragecases-subscription-v1.8. Every subscription and fixed platform fee remains separate from attorney-to-attorney compensation.

CoverageCases may deny, suspend, restrict, or terminate access for eligibility, verification, subscription, security, legal, professional-responsibility, policy, or operational reasons. A restricted, unsubscribed, or stale-assent account may retain only access reasonably necessary to manage billing, privacy, legal assent, and structured obligations for an already accepted engagement, including cancellation, reporting, acknowledgement, dispute, and history. It may not browse open opportunities, post, or accept.

Wind-down access does not restore eligibility and does not relieve either attorney of duties that continue outside CoverageCases.

CoverageCases accepts account, subscription, fixed platform-charge, Identity, privacy, security, and platform-conduct complaints through the Support and Complaint Procedure. We may review platform records, preserve evidence, restrict activity, and correct or refund our own subscription or fixed platform charges where authorized.

Disputes over external attorney-to-attorney compensation remain between the attorneys under their separate agreement. CoverageCases does not charge, refund, adjudicate, or enforce that compensation and does not provide emergency service or decide legal-service quality, malpractice, discipline, or damages.

CoverageCases does not guarantee attorney availability, acceptance, identity results, appearance, performance, communications outside the platform, court action, outcome, uninterrupted service, data preservation, or third-party systems. Nothing excludes obligations or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Florida law governs these Terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to applicable federal jurisdiction, exclusive venue for a dispute with CoverageCases lies in the state or federal courts located in Hillsborough County, Florida. These Terms do not require predispute arbitration and do not include a jury-trial or class-action waiver.

A material legal change requires a new immutable version and fresh affirmative assent before affected marketplace activity. Prior assent records remain preserved. Questions may be sent to admin@coveragecases.com or mailed to the business address above.