Harold v. Sanders

SILBERMAN, Judge.

Section 44.103, Florida Statutes (2012), and Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.820(h) provide that a party to court-ordered, nonbinding arbitration has twenty days after service of the arbitrator’s decision to request a trial de novo before the decision is referred to the trial court for entry of a final judgment. Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.090(e) (2011) adds five days to a prescribed period when a party is required to take some action within a prescribed period after a paper is served and the paper is served by mail. The *339question on appeal is whether rule 1.090(e)…