CITIZENS PROPERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION
v.
ROSANNA WEBER, ET AL.
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A trial court may award a contingency fee multiplier to counsel when supported by competent, substantial evidence, but post-judgment interest must be calculated at a variable rate adjusted annually under Florida Statute § 55.03(3), not at a constant fixed rate.
[1] Post-judgment interest on a final judgment must be calculated at a variable rate adjusted annually on January 1 in accordance with the interest rate set by the Chief Fina…
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Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed October 21, 2026.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
No. 3D25-1826
Lower Tribunal No. 21-16120-CA-01 Citizens Property Insurance Corporation,
Appellant,
VS.
Rosanna Weber, et al.,
Appellees.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Reemberto Diaz, Judge.
Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP and C. Ryan Jones and David T. Burr (St. Petersburg), for appellant. Alvarez, Feltman, Da Silva & Costa, PL and Paul B. Feltman, for appellees.
Before GORDO, LOBREE and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Citizens Property Insurance Corporation appeals a final judgment awarding attorney's fees and costs in favor of its insureds, appellees Rosanna and Randy Weber, challenging the award of a contingency fee multiplier to the Webers' trial co-counsel, Alvarez Feltman Da Silva & Costa, PLLC, and the award of post-judgment interest calculated at a fixed rate.¹ Because the trial court's application of a contingency fee multiplier is supported by competent, substantial evidence, we affirm the final judgment awarding attorney's fees and costs. However, the Webers commendably acknowledge that the final judgment erroneously provides that postjudgment interest is to be calculated at a constant rate until the judgment is satisfied. See § 55.03(3), Fla. Stat. (2025) (“The interest rate is established at the time a judgment is obtained and such interest rate shall be adjusted annually on January 1 of each year in accordance with the interest rate in effect on that date as set by the Chief Financial Officer until the judgment is paid . . . ."); Townsend v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 192 So. 3d 1223, 1224-25 (Fla. 2016). Accordingly, we remand with directions to amend the final judgment to provide for a variable rate of interest in accordance with section 55.03(3).
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with directions.
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