HELDENMUTH v. GROLL

No. 4D12-541.

128 So.3d 895 (2013)

Werner HELDENMUTH, Appellant, v. Paul GROLL, Bruce J. Smoler, and Smoler, Lerman & Whitebrook, P.A. f/k/a Smoler, Lerman, Bente & Whitebrook, P.A., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 18, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Arslanian , Plantation, for appellant.

Bruce J. Smoler of Smoler & Associates, P.A., Hollywood, for appellees.


CONNER, J.

A claimant harmed by a breach of an escrow agreement can pursue damages against an escrow agent for breach of contract, but damages for civil theft require more than proof of noncompliance with the escrow agreement. In the context of escrow agreements, damages for civil theft require allegations of knowing and intentional wrongful conduct. In this appeal, we address whether the trial court properly dismissed the counts alleging conversion and civil theft...

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