COOPERS & LYBRAND v. TRUSTEES OF, ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI

Nos. 87-23, 87-903.

536 So.2d 278 (1988)

COOPERS & LYBRAND, Appellant, v. TRUSTEES OF the ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI/DIOCESE OF ST. PETERSBURG HEALTH & WELFARE PLAN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied January 23, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A., and Bradford Swing, Miami, for appellant.

Wood, Lucksinger & Epstein and J. Michael Fitzgerald, Joseph J. Portuondo, and Juan Carlos Enjamio, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and JORGENSON, JJ.


JORGENSON, Judge.

Coopers & Lybrand appeals from a final judgment entered against it in favor of the Trustees of the Archdiocese of Miami. The judgment was based upon a jury's finding of negligence by the accounting firm in its audits of the Trustees' financial records. For the reasons which follow, we reverse in part, affirm in part, and remand for further proceedings.

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