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ASSOCIATION EMPLOYERS INSURANCE COMPANY, etc., Appellant, v. AMERICAN EXCAVATING and PSI, Inc., a/k/a Jammal and Associates, Appellees.
    No. 96-3053.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    Oct. 3, 1997.
    Rehearing Denied Nov. 13, 1997.
    David C. Beers of McDonough, O’Dell, Beers, Wieland, Williams & Krakar, P.A., Orlando, for Appellant.
    Curtis L. Brown of Wright, Fulford, Moor-head & Brown, P.A., Orlando, for Appellees.
   GOSHORN, Judge.

Association Employers Insurance Company appeals the judgments for attorney’s fees and costs entered against it in favor of appel-lees American Excavating and PSI, Inc. under section 768.79, Florida Statutes, which provides for attorney’s fees in certain eases where an offer of judgment is not accepted. At the time the trial court entered its judgment, it did not have the benefit of the supreme court’s opinion in MX Investments, Inc. v. Crawford, 700 So.2d 640 (Fla.1997), which clarifies that no entitlement to attorney’s fees arises under section 768.79 unless the ease is dismissed with prejudice. Accordingly, we reverse.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

COBB and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.