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 Tony Kaplan Contact Info
Tony has been handling a variety of Maritime claims for the last 17 years for a wide range of domestic and international underwriters. He joined Lamorte Burns in 2006 and began handling Longshore and Harbor Workers compensation claims as well. Tony holds a Private Investigator License and All Lines Adjuster license and is working towards his AMIM (Associate in Marine Insurance Management). Throughout his career he has developed much of his Maritime expertise through securing recorded statements involving death cases, first and third party catastrophic injuries, investigating accident scenes and working closely with many different law enforcement officials involving cargo thefts, stowaways, and repatriations. Tony also handles all aspects of Jones Act claims for Employers and their underwriters as well as coordinates survey matters for various P&I Clubs.
Thomas A. Kimbrough Contact Info
Tom has been in the maritime claims field for the past 33 years. He began his career as a resident adjuster handling work-related maritime accidents. He continued his career while working for carriers, a brokerage firm, and more that a decade of self-employment in and around the Port of New Orleans. In 1996, Tom moved to Chicago to become the Branch Manager of a national TPA which handles Longshore claims throughout the Midwest (the Great Lakes, the Upper Mississippi Valley, and the Ohio River Valley). He then moved to Florida in 2005 and currently handles claims in our Port Everglades and Jacksonville offices.


Tom is a licensed multi-line adjuster in Florida and is on the board of the Longshore Claims Association.

Tom earned a B.S. in Economics from the University of Louisiana - Lafayette (formerly USL) and an M.B.A. form Nicholls State University.

Kimberly Almaguer  Contact Info
  Kimberly Almaguer joined Lamorte Burns & Co., Inc. in June, 2002. She obtained her Florida All Lines Adjuster license in 1995 and is a member of the W.C.C.P., P.C.C.P. and the Compensation Fraud Task Force. She has ten years of extensive claims handling experience involving State of Florida Compensation, Social Security Disability, and U.S. Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation claims. She is also capable of handling a variety of P&I claims.
 Shaun Mundy Aulita  Contact Info
Shaun has handled and supervised USL&H, Jones Act and statutory compensation claims since 1982.  Her career has relocated her in various ports including New Orleans, Houston, south Florida where she was a national maritime manager for a major carrier.  Shaun developed expertise out of the claims arena for state carriers as to allocation of maritime premium, coverage and underwriting disputes relative to USL&H.  She originally joined the Houston Lamorte office in 1992 where she handled P&I and Jones Act claims.  She presently focuses on USL&H claims in the South Florida area. 

Shaun has a master’s degree in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling and a B.A. in ISS Psychology/Sociology from University of South Florida.