Case ID: so2d_528/html/1353-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. Guy E. SMITH and his wife, Martha I. Smith, Appellees.
    No. 88-478.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Aug. 8, 1988.
    Larry Hill and Michael D. Hook of Moore, Hill & Westmoreland, Pensacola, for appellant.
    Woodburn S. Wesley, Jr. and Mary J. Koch, of Cotton, Wesley, Poche’ & Gates, Shalimar, for appellees.
   BARFIELD, Judge.

We AFFIRM the award of the expert witness fee for the attorney who testified as an expert regarding the value of a reasonable fee for the Smiths’ attorney. We REVERSE the attorney fee award and REMAND for redetermination of the amount of a reasonable fee in light of this court’s decision in United Services Automobile Association v. Smith, 527 So.2d 281 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988), and the fee agreement limitation imposed in Florida Patient’s Compensation Fund v. Rowe, 472 So.2d 1145 (Fla.1985).

JOANOS and WIGGINTON, JJ., concur.