CORNELL v. ALLEN LLC (2024)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Lisa Anne CORNELL, Appellant, v. Joseph M. ALLEN and Joe Allen LLC d/b/a Joe Allen Construction, Appellees.

No. 1D2022-2908

Decided: January 10, 2024

G. Ware Cornell of Cornell & Associates, P.A., Weston, for Appellant. Robert Emmett Anderson Jr. and Tim Kizzire II of Yeslow, Koeppel & Anderson, P.A., Fort Myers, for Appellees.

Affirmed. See Saia Motor Freight Line, Inc. v. Reid, 930 So. 2d 598, 600 (Fla. 2006) (recognizing that Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.525 “establishe[s] a bright-line time requirement for motions for costs and attorney fees”); Hovercraft of S. Fla., LLC v. Reynolds, 211 So. 3d 1073, 1076 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017) (holding that a reservation of jurisdiction to award fees does not determine fee entitlement under AmerUs Life Ins. Co. v. Lait, 2 So. 3d 203 (Fla. 2009) to avoid the thirty-day filing requirement).

Per Curiam.

Osterhaus, C.J., and B.L. Thomas and Nordby, JJ., concur.

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