MIAMI-DADE COUNTY v. FERRER

No. 3D05-1288.

943 So.2d 288 (2006)

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Appellant, v. Emilio FERRER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 29, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray A. Greenberg, Miami-Dade County Attorney, and Thomas H. Robertson, Assistant County Attorney, for appellant.

Lourdes E. Ferrer, Hollywood, for appellee.

Before SUAREZ and LAGOA, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


SUAREZ, J.

Miami-Dade County (the "County") appeals the order denying its request for attorney's fees. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

The County asserts that the trial court improperly denied its request for statutory attorney's fees due to Emilio Ferrer's rejection of its reasonable offers of settlement. Ferrer has failed to file a brief in this appeal, but argued below that the County's offers of settlement were invalid and preclude the County...

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