Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal ordered the Broward Circuit Court to reverse and remand a ruling on attorney fees and costs in a case that on appeal centered on ambiguities in an offer of judgment.

Javier Lopez, managing partner at Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, is not involved in the litigation between Tower Hill Signature Insurance Co., the appellant, and Alex Kushch, the appellee. But the attorney-fees expert explained that the confusion in using the offer of judgment statute and how an offer is “supposed” to look, has increasingly become weaponized.

Javier Lopez, managing partner at Kozyak, Tropin & Thorckmorton in Coral Gables. Javier Lopez, managing partner at Kozyak, Tropin & Thorckmorton in Coral Gables.

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