Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-04-24 16:03:08.859342+00
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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. 3D23-0924
                        Lower Tribunal No. 22-7793
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      Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company,
                                  Appellant,

                                     vs.

                             Bertha Velarde,
                                  Appellee.

     An Appeal from a non-final order from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade
County, Barbara Areces, Judge.

     Karla D. Ellis and Noah S. Bender (Fort Lauderdale), for appellant.

     Alvarez, Feltman, Da Silva & Costa, P.L., and Paul B. Feltman; The
Echevarria Law Firm, P.A., and Nicolas M. Echevarria, for appellee.

Before FERNANDEZ, GORDO and BOKOR, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. Parkhomchuck v. AIY, Inc., 338 So. 3d 397, 400 (Fla. 3d

DCA 2022) (“[I]f the appellants were dissatisfied with the trial court's ruling

on their first rule 1.540(b) motion, their remedy was by appeal, not b[y] filing

successive motions to vacate containing the same general grounds or even

new ones, which could have been raised in the first motion.” (quotation

omitted)).

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