ZC Insurance Co. v. Brooks

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

STONE, J.

We grant Appellees’ motion for rehearing, withdraw our opinion of March 28, 2007, and substitute the following in its place.

We reverse a final judgment on attorney’s fees and costs for failure to timely serve a motion for attorney’s fees pursuant to rule 1.525, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure.

*420ZC brought a declaratory action, claiming a lack of insurance coverage under an exclusionary clause in its policy. On October 26, 2001, the court entered a judgment in favor of the appellees/insureds (Brooks), concluding:

IT IS THEREFORE ordered and adjudged that ZC…