HORTA v. CITIZENS PROPERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION (2025)

Affirmed. See Booker v. Sumter Cnty. Sheriff's Office/N. Am. Risk Servs., 166 So. 3d 189, 194 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015) (“The Daubert[¹ ] test as codified in section 90.702 requires (1) that the testimony be based on ‘sufficient facts or data’; (2) that it be a ‘product of reliable principles and methods’; and (3) that the expert ‘applied the principles and methods reliable to the facts of the case.’ ”); Kemp v. State, 280 So. 3d 81, 89 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019) (“The Supreme Court in Daubert outlined a list of factors that bear on the reliability inquiry: (1) whether the theory can be or has been tested; (2) whether the theory or technique has been subjected to peer review and publication; (3) the known or potential rate of error of a particular scientific technique, as well as the existence of standards controlling the technique's operation; and (4) general acceptance in the scientific community.”).

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1.   Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993).

PER CURIAM.