Case Name: MAINGATE DEVELOPMENT, INC., Appellant, v. LAKEVIEW MARKETING GROUP, INC., and Kenneth J. Schwartz, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-06-21
Citations: 758 So. 2d 1290
Docket Number: Nos. 4D99-2175, 4D99-3979
Parties: MAINGATE DEVELOPMENT, INC., Appellant, v. LAKEVIEW MARKETING GROUP, INC., and Kenneth J. Schwartz, Appellees.
Judges: GUNTHER and GROSS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 758
Pages: 1290–1291

Head Matter:
MAINGATE DEVELOPMENT, INC., Appellant, v. LAKEVIEW MARKETING GROUP, INC., and Kenneth J. Schwartz, Appellees.
Nos. 4D99-2175, 4D99-3979.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
June 21, 2000.
Norman Malinski of Norman Malinski, P.A., Aventura, for appellant.
Adam S. Hall and Andrew C. Hall of Hall, David & Joseph, P.A., Miami, for appellees.

Opinion:
FARMER, J.
We affirm a jury verdict awarding Lake-view $65,000 in damages for Maingate's breach of a contract between the two. Since the jury's verdict liquidated damages as of a date certain — February 13, 1996 (the date the contract was breached) until August 27, 1998 (the date of the verdict)— Lakeview is entitled, as a matter of law, to prejudgment interest at the statutory rate from the date of Lakeview's loss. See Argonaut Ins. Co. v. May Plumbing Co., 474 So.2d 212, 215 (Fla.1985). As such, the trial court had a ministerial duty to add the appropriate amount of interest to the principal amount of damages awarded in the verdict. See Argonaut, 474 So.2d at 215.
Accordingly, we remand for the limited purpose of the trial court adding prejudgment interest calculated at the statutory rate to the final judgment.
GUNTHER and GROSS, JJ., concur.