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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                          Opinion filed April 24, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed, motion for rehearing.

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                              No. 3D23-297
                       Lower Tribunal No. 18-13586
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                          Deixi Esquerra, etc.,
                                  Appellant,

                                      vs.

                                Sari Jacob,
                                  Appellee.

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

      Diaz, Reus & Targ, LLP, Brant C. Hadaway, and Ibrahim M. Amir, for
appellant.

     Rizk Law, PLLC, Beshoy Rizk, Hutchison Law, P.A., and Courtney D.
Hutchison (Naples), for appellee.

Before SCALES, MILLER, and GORDO, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. See Int’l Sec. Mgmt. Grp., Inc. v. Rolland, 271 So. 3d 33, 49

(Fla. 3d DCA 2018) (“‘In negligence actions Florida courts follow the more

likely than not standard of causation and require proof that the negligence

probably caused the plaintiff’s injury.’”) (quoting Siegel v. Cross Senior Care,

Inc., 239 So. 3d 738, 741 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018)); Benitez v. Joseph Trucking,

Inc., 68 So. 3d 428, 431 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011) (“Expert testimony is . . .

necessary to establish legal causation where the issue is beyond the

common knowledge of laymen.”) (citing Greene v. Flewelling, 366 So. 2d

777, 780 (Fla. 2d DCA 1978)).

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