Avemco Insurance Co. v. Tobin

This is possibly the end of a long succession of appeals, spanning fourteen years, regarding an insurance claim and the trial court’s award of attorney’s fees pursuant to section 57.105, Florida Statutes (1997).1 In this appeal, Avemco challenges the trial court’s failure to award the full amount of its attorney’s fees against the client, Tobin, after it determined that this court’s remand instructions in Maloney v. Avemco Insurance Company did not provide it the authority to do so. We reverse, concluding that the trial court had jurisdiction and should have awarded the fees against To-bin…