Case ID: so2d_711/html/1166-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY CO., Appellant, v. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
    Nos. 97-1416, 97-1012.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    March 25, 1998.
    Rehearing Denied July 15, 1998.
    Andrew V. Tramont, Miami, for appellant.
    Gallwey Gillman Curtis Vento & Horn and Karen H. Curtis and Stephen B. Gillman, Miami, for appellee.
    Before NESBITT, LEVY and SORONDO, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The record herein fails to reflect substantial competent evidence to support the appel-lee’s contention that it incurred attorney’s fees as a result of the appellant’s failure to pay, or delay in paying, the $210,000.00 that appellant owed to appellee by virtue of the default of the borrower. Rather, it is clear from the record that, even if the appellant had immediately paid the $210,000.00 in question, the appellee would have incurred all of the attorney’s fees that it did, in fact, incur because of appellee’s lawsuit against the borrower wherein appellee sought to recover $2.6 million and, in addition, the fact that appellee further incurred attorney’s fees in defending against the counter-claim filed by the borrower in an amount in excess of $20 million. Accordingly, the order under review is reversed and this cause is remanded for the purpose of allowing the trial court to enter such orders as are appropriate and consistent herewith.