Miami court orders Expedia to pay $29.8 million to Cuban-American after winning lawsuit under the He…

In a historic legal victory, a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida granted a Cuban-American plaintiff a compensation of 29.8 million dollars against each of the four corporate defendants of Expedia in the first jury trial held under the Helms-Burton Act (Echevarría et al. v. Expedia Group, Inc. et al.).

“The verdict represents a decisive victory for the plaintiffs, who filed lawsuits under Title III of the [Helms-Burton] Act, allowing Cuban Americans to claim damages from entities that traffic in goods confiscated by Castro’s communist dictatorship, as noted on their website by the law firm Rivero & Mestre, which won the case.”

“This is a great victory not only for our client but also for the Cuban American community in general, whose properties were unjustly usurped and exploited by American companies in collaboration with the Cuban communist dictatorship,” stated Andrés Rivero.

“We are proud to have contributed to ensuring justice under a law that had never before…