PONCE v. U-HAUL CO. OF FLORIDA

No. 4D06-4570.

979 So.2d 380 (2008)

Julio PONCE and Alejandra Ponce, his wife, Appellants, v. U-HAUL CO. OF FLORIDA and Robert Freelove, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 16, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Seiden of Seiden Alder & Matthewman, PA, Boca Raton, and Philip D. Parrish of Philip D. Parrish, P.A., Miami, for appellants.

Charles M-P George, Mitchell L. Lundeen, and Sharon R. Ellis, Coral Gables, for appellees.


ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

STONE, J.

We deny Appellees' motion for rehearing, but withdraw the opinion of January 23, 2008, and substitute the following in its place.

We reverse an order that granted U-Haul's motion to compel settlement. Ponce asserts that his attorney's authority to negotiate settlement did not include the power to file a formal proposal for settlement without the client's knowledge. We agree.

Ponce was...

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