UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL GROUP INC (2021)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL GROUP, INC., a/a/o Irina Torres Suarez, Appellee.

No. 3D21-0219

Decided: July 07, 2021

Before HENDON, MILLER, and BOKOR, JJ.

Michael J. Neimand, for appellant. Feiler & Leach, P.L., and Martin E. Leach, for appellee.

Appellant, United Automobile Insurance Company, challenges a final judgment granting attorney's fees in favor of appellee, Professional Medical Group, Inc. We are cognizant that at the time the contested judgment was rendered, the trial court did not yet have the benefit of United Automobile Insurance Co. v. Professional Medical Group, Inc., 318 So. 3d 1261 (Fla. 3d DCA May 12, 2021), but, bound by our precedent, we reverse and remand with instructions to conduct an evidentiary hearing. See also Sperdute v. Household Realty Corp., 585 So. 2d 1168, 1169 (Fla. 4th DCA 1991); Newman v. Newman, 121 So. 3d 661, 662 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013); Guyton v. Leonard Dewey Wilkinson Action Welding Supply, Inc., 707 So. 2d 885, 886 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998); Roggemann v. Boston Safe Deposit & Tr. Co., 670 So. 2d 1073, 1075 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996); Castranova v. Auth, 590 So. 2d 28, 29 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991).

Reversed and remanded.

PER CURIAM.

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