CARVAJAL v. PENLAND

Nos. 2D12-4123, 2D12-4899.

120 So.3d 6 (2013)

Leonor Rissotto CARVAJAL; Sergio Carvajal; and State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, Appellants, v. Karen PENLAND, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied August 22, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Tinker and Charles W. Hall of Banker Lopez Gassler P.A., St. Petersburg, for Appellants.

Daniel J. Leeper of Leeper and Leeper, St. Petersburg, for Appellee.


BLACK, Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, Leonor Rissotto Carvajal, and Sergio Carvajal, appellants here and defendants in a personal injury lawsuit below, raise three claims of error. First, they argue that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to order a new trial based upon the improper testimony of Karen Penland, appellee here and plaintiff below, and upon her counsel's improper closing argument. State Farm and...

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