Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Bertha Velarde

Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed April 24, 2024.

Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D23-0924

Lower Tribunal No. 22-7793

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Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Appellant,

vs.

Bertha Velarde,

Appellee.

An Appeal from a non-final order from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Barbara Areces, Judge.

Karla D. Ellis and Noah S. Bender (Fort Lauderdale), for appellant.

Alvarez, Feltman, Da Silva & Costa, P.L., and Paul B. Feltman; The Echevarria Law Firm, P.A., and Nicolas M. Echevarria, for appellee.

Before FERNANDEZ, GORDO and BOKOR, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. Parkhomchuck v. AIY, Inc., 338 So. 3d 397, 400 (Fla. 3d DCA 2022) (“[I]f the appellants were dissatisfied with the trial court's ruling on their first rule 1.540(b) motion, their remedy was by appeal, not b[y] filing successive motions to vacate containing the same general grounds or even new ones, which could have been raised in the first motion.” (quotation omitted)).