Case Name: BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, as successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company, Appellant, v. Grady CARTER and Mildred Carter, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2003-04-16
Citations: 848 So. 2d 365
Docket Number: No. 1D01-1480
Parties: BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, as successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company, Appellant, v. Grady CARTER and Mildred Carter, Appellee.
Judges: BOOTH and HAWKES, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 848
Pages: 365–368

Head Matter:
BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, as successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company, Appellant, v. Grady CARTER and Mildred Carter, Appellee.
No. 1D01-1480.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
April 16, 2003.
Order Certifying Question June 26, 2003.
J.W. Prichard, Jr., and Robert B. Parrish, of Mosely, Warren, Prichard & Parrish, Jacksonville; and Thomas E. Riley, of Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, New York, New York, for Appellant.
Norwood S. Wilner and Gregory H. Maxwell, of Spohrer, Wilner, Maxwell & Matthews, PA, Jacksonville; and Ada A. Hammond and Charles M. Johnston, of Johnston, Hammond & Burnett, Jacksonville, for Appellees.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant challenges an award of trial attorney's fees. Based on the unpublished order in Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Carter, Case No. SC-94,797 (Fla. Dec. 13, 2002), we affirm the trial court's application of section 768.79, Florida Statutes, but reverse the application of the contingency fee multiplier. Accordingly, we remand to the trial court to enter an award of trial attorney's fees of $707,000.00.
AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part, and REMANDED with instructions.
BOOTH and HAWKES, JJ., concur.
KAHN, J., dissents with opinion.