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Date Created: 2024-03-06 16:05:54.467428+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                         Opinion filed March 6, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                            No. 3D23-0308
                        Lower Tribunal No. 22-950
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                            Roy Otero, et al.,
                                 Appellants,

                                     vs.

    The American Automobile Association (Incorporated)
                and Auto Club Group, Inc.,
                                 Appellees.

    An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, William
Thomas, Judge.

    Panter, Panter & Sampedro, P.A., Joshua L. Wintle, and David
Sampedro, for appellants.

    Milber, Makris, Plousadis & Seiden, LLP, Crystal L. Arocha,
and Michael J. Lynott, for appellees.

Before LOGUE, C.J., and FERNANDEZ and LINDSEY, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. See McCain v. Fla. Power Corp., 593 So. 2d 500, 503 (Fla.

1992) (“[D]uty exists as a matter of law and is not a factual question for the

jury to decide.”); Jenkins v. W.L. Roberts, Inc., 851 So. 2d 781, 783 (Fla. 1st

DCA 2003) (“The duty element of negligence is a threshold legal question; if

no legal duty exists, then no action for negligence may lie.”).

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