R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. v. TOWNSEND

No. 1D14-4147.

160 So.3d 570 (2015)

R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Appellant, v. Lyantie TOWNSEND, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Frank Townsend, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 9, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Beall, Jr. , Larry Hill of Moore, Hill & Westmoreland, P.A., Pensacola; Robert B. Parrish , Charles M. Trippe, Jr. , David C. Reeves , and Jeffrey A. Yarbrough of Moseley, Prichard, Parrish, Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, for Appellant.

Steven Brannock , Celene H. Humphries , Tracy S. Carlin , and Tyler K. Pitchford of Brannock & Humphries, Tampa; Gregory D. Prysock and Katherine M. Massa of Morgan & Morgan, P.A., Jacksonville; Keith R. Mitnik and John W. Dill of Morgan & Morgan, Orlando, for Appellee.


The Appellant, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, appeals an order entered by the trial court that denied its motion to determine the interest rate payable on judgment. The Appellant argued that the 2011 amendment to section 55.03 applied to any post-judgment interest accrued after the date the...

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