Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-02-21 15:03:25.14248+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                       Opinion filed February 21, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                              No. 3D22-768
                       Lower Tribunal No. 17-01358
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                 Knauf de Colombia, S.A.S., et al.,
                                 Appellants,

                                     vs.

                       Carlos Hakim-Daccach,
                                  Appellee.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Beatrice
Butchko, Judge.

     White & Case LLP and Raoul G. Cantero and Zachary B. Dickens and
David W. Rifkin, for appellants.

     Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP and David M. Gersten and
Joseph A. Sacher; Sequor Law P.A., and Christopher A. Noel and Edward
H. Davis, Jr., and Arnoldo B. Lacayo, for appellee.

Before EMAS, LINDSEY and LOBREE, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      We affirm on all counts without further discussion, except as to the

issue of setoff, to which the Appellee has commendably conceded error.

Accordingly, we affirm in part, and reverse in part, and instruct the trial court

to set off the jury’s $19.5 million verdict by the $10 million bank defendant

settlement and recalculate pre-judgment interest in an amended final

judgment. See Addison Constr. Corp. v. Vecellio, 240 So. 3d 757, 764 (Fla.

4th DCA 2018) (“The purpose of the setoff statutes is to prevent a windfall to

a plaintiff by way of double recovery.”).

      Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with instructions.

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