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CRAWFORD v. WEAVER, KUVIN, WEAVER & LIPTON, P.A.

No. 97-3417.

730 So.2d 844 (1999)

Wendalyn CRAWFORD, Appellant, v. WEAVER, KUVIN, WEAVER & LIPTON, P.A., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ginsberg & Schwartz and Arnold R. Ginsberg, Miami, for appellant.

Stephens, Lynn, Klein & McNicholas and Robert M. Klein, Miami; Wolpe & Leibowitz and Bradley H. Trushin, Miami; Josephs, Jack & Gaebe and Scott A. Cole, Miami; Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson and John W. McLuskey, Miami; Gaebe, Murphy, Mullen & Antonelli; O'Connor & Meyers and David R. Cassetty, for appellees.

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

PER CURIAM.

Wendalyn Crawford, the plaintiff below, appeals from an order dismissing her complaint for failure to serve process on defendants within 120 days from the filing of the complaint. For the following reasons, we reverse.

Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.070(j) was recently amended to provide that if a plaintiff fails to serve a defendant with process and the initial pleading within 120 days of the filing of the initial complaint, the trial court...

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