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In CBRE, Inc. v. DidierGroup, LLC, (Fla. 6th DCA Mar. 13, 2026), the Sixth District reversed part of a judgment, holding that a defendant is entitled to a setoff when the plaintiff settles identical claims with a co-defendant. What happened:
DG sued CBRE for tortious interference and aiding/abetting a...

In Dorn v. Hatwood as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorn (Fla. 4th DCA Feb. 18, 2026), the Fourth District Court of Appeal addressed whether attorneys’ fees incurred in probate administration could be included as part of a lien against protected homestead property. What happened: 

In Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Griffin (Fla. 4th DCA Feb. 25, 2026), the Fourth District reversed a jury verdict for an insured in a property insurance dispute because the insured failed to comply with the statutory pre-suit notice requirement. What happened:
The insured filed a breach...

In Chetrit Group, LLC v. EquiShares, Inc., the Third District Court of Appeal addressed whether communications between business parties and an attorney involved in drafting a proposed joint-venture agreement were protected by the attorney-client privilege, or instead fell within Florida’s statutory common-interest exception. The dispute arose from a...

In McBride v. Keller, 51 Fla. L. Weekly D280a (Fla. 5th DCA Feb. 13, 2026), the Fifth District vacated a county court order dismissing a complaint with prejudice because the trial court entered the final dismissal while an interlocutory appeal was still pending, even though the appellate court had dismissed the...

A recent Florida Third District Court of Appeal decision highlights a point that often gets overlooked in business and estate planning: when a trust owns an LLC, and the governing documents give trustees/managers broad authority to act independently, courts will generally enforce that authority as written—even in the middle of a personal...

Florida lawyers litigate fee entitlement all the time—but Libman v. Cardiovascular Mobile Service, Inc. is a clean reminder that courts don’t “fill in” attorney’s-fee rights that the contract doesn’t actually grant. In Libman, the Third DCA reversed both (1) an order finding entitlement to fees and (2) a...

In Levine v. Levai, 51 Fla. L. Weekly D33a (Fla. 3d DCA Dec. 31, 2025), the Third District vacated a nonfinal order granting leave to add punitive damages because the plaintiffs did not attach the proposed amended complaint to their motion at least 20 days before the hearing, as required by...