THE FLORIDA BAR RE AMENDMENT TO RULES

No. 73263.

550 So.2d 442 (1989)

THE FLORIDA BAR RE: AMENDMENT TO RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, RULE 1.442 (OFFER OF JUDGMENT).

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied November 7, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rutledge R. Liles, President, The Florida Bar, Jacksonville, Stephen N. Zack, President-elect, The Florida Bar, Miami, Bruce J. Berman, Chairman, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Miami, Jamie A. Cole, Hollywood, Clifford L. Somers, Chairman, Offer of Judgment Subcommittee, Tampa, John Andrew Devault, III, Chairman, Trial Lawyers Section, Jacksonville, William F. Blews, Chairman, Special Committee on the Offer of Judgment Rule, St. Petersburg, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, for petitioner.


PER CURIAM.

In 1988, this Court requested the Civil Procedure Rules Committee (the "Committee") to examine any possible conflict between sections 768.79 and 45.061, Florida Statutes (1987), and Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.442, governing offers of judgment. In response, the Committee petitions for adoption of a rule. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.

In its pertinent part, the rule change proposed by a majority of the Committee (by...

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