District Court of Appeal of Florida

In a dispute over a trial court's division of plaintiff's attorneys' fees between attorneys in underlying personal injury litigation, orders granting a motion to tax prejudgment interest against an attorney and denying a motion to tax costs against the attorney are reversed where the trial court erred in awarding prejudgment interest where funds were placed in an escrow account under court control, the prejudgment interest was not timely requested, and the trial court abused its discretion in failing to tax costs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2006
• Published 06/14/2006

Judges

• POLEN, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric Hewko of The Hewko Firm, North Palm Beach, for Rickey Ray Wyatt and Eric Hewko., James W. Beasley, Jr., and Robert J. Hauser of Beasley, Hauser, Kramer, Leonard & Galardi, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Montgomery & Larson LLP, and Robert M. Montgomery, Jr., Jane Kreusler-Walsh and Barbara J. Compiani of Jane Kreusler-Walsh, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Christopher M. Larmoyeux.