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

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, etc., Appellant, v. PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL GROUP, INC., etc., Appellee.

No. 3D21-95

Decided: August 04, 2021

Before EMAS, LINDSEY and GORDO, JJ.

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

Affirmed. See Glob. Xtreme, Inc. v. Advanced Aircraft Ctr., Inc., 122 So. 3d 487, 490 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013) (holding: “The standard of review for an award of attorney's fees, whether based on contract or statute, is abuse of discretion”) (citing Universal Beverages Holdings, Inc. v. Merkin, 902 So. 2d 288, 290 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005)). See also Frances v. State, 970 So. 2d 806, 813 (Fla. 2007) (observing: “Under the abuse of discretion standard, ‘[d]iscretion is abused only ‘when the judicial action is arbitrary, fanciful, or unreasonable, which is another way of saying that discretion is abused only where no reasonable [person] would take the view adopted by the trial court.’ ”) (quoting Trease v. State, 768 So. 2d 1050, 1053 n. 2 (Fla. 2000)) (quotations omitted).

PER CURIAM.

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