UNIVERSAL PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
v.
BERTHA VELARDE

Fla. 3d DCA | 2024-04-24
No. 2023-0924
Areces, J., Fernandez, J., Gordo, J., Bokor, J.
2024 FL 4659 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2024)

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Holding

A party dissatisfied with a trial court's ruling on a Rule 1.540(b) motion must appeal rather than file successive motions to vacate containing the same general grounds or new grounds that could have been raised in the first motion.


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[1] A party dissatisfied with a trial court's ruling on a Rule 1.540(b) motion to vacate must pursue appeal as the proper remedy rather than filing successive motions contain…

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“if the appellants were dissatisfied with the trial court's ruling on their first rule 1.540(b) motion, their remedy was by appeal, not b[y] filing successive motions to vacate containing the same general grounds or even new ones, which could have been raised in the first motion.”

Court's statement of the governing legal principle regarding proper procedure after an adverse ruling on a Rule 1.540(b) motion.

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Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company appealed a non-final order from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County. The case involved a dispute r…

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Opinion of the Court
Bokor

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed April 24, 2024. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D23-0924 Lower Tribunal No. 22-7793 ________________

Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Appellant,

vs.

Bertha Velarde, Appellee.

An Appeal from a non-final order from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Barbara Areces, Judge.

Karla D. Ellis and Noah S. Bender (Fort Lauderdale), for appellant.

Alvarez, Feltman, Da Silva & Costa, P.L., and Paul B. Feltman; The Echevarria Law Firm, P.A., and Nicolas M. Echevarria, for appellee.

Before FERNANDEZ, GORDO and BOKOR, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

2

Affirmed. Parkhomchuck v. AIY, Inc., 338 So. 3d 397, 400 (Fla. 3d DCA 2022) (“[I]f the appellants were dissatisfied with the trial court's ruling on their first rule 1.540(b) motion, their remedy was by appeal, not b[y] filing successive motions to vacate containing the same general grounds or even new ones, which could have been raised in the first motion.” (quotation omitted)).


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