District Court of Appeal of Florida

An assignee of a third-party bad faith claim is entitled to attorney's fees pursuant to Florida Statutes section 627.428 when the assignee obtains a favorable judgment in the bad faith action. An order awarding plaintiff attorney's fees in her capacity as assignee of an individual's third-party bad faith action against insurer is affirmed where the trial court properly awarded the fees pursuant to section 627.428, and properly determined that it had the discretion to apply a multiplier to the fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/29/2006
• Published 11/29/2006

Judges

• STRINGER, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel A. Martinez, Michael T. Callahan, Weslee L. Ferron, and Jennifer C. Worden of Callahan Martinez, L.L.C., St. Petersburg, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy A. Lauten and George A. Vaka of Vaka, Larson & Johnson, P.L., Tampa, for Appellee.