Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-11-15 17:05:25.298926+00
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                              FOURTH DISTRICT

               CHRISTINA AILEEN and LIONEL SAMUELS,
                             Appellants,

                                      v.

  UNIVERSAL PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY,
                        Appellee.

                             No. 4D2022-2256

                            [November 15, 2023]

  Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm
Beach County; John S. Kastrenakes, Judge; L.T. Case No. 50-2020-CA-
011936-XXXX-MB.

   Randall Shochet of Shochet Law Group, Trenton, for appellants.

  Kara Rockenbach Link and David A. Noel of Link & Rockenbach, PA,
West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

    Appellants challenge a final judgment after a jury trial, contending that
the verdict form submitted to the jury was improper. After the trial court
rejected appellants’ verdict form as too confusing, the trial court proposed
its own form at the charge conference. Appellants did not object and
suggested minor changes. After a verdict and judgment in appellee’s favor,
appellants challenged the verdict form as incomplete. However, by
consenting or failing to object, appellants waived any challenge to the form.
See Bachman v. Oliveros, 293 So. 3d 555, 559 (Fla. 5th DCA 2020) (“The
fault should not be laid upon the trial judge; rather, it must be placed
upon the [appellant’s] trial attorney who led the court into error by
approving, or failing to object to, the form of the verdict before it was
submitted to the jury.”) (alteration in original) (quoting Keller Indus., Inc.
v. Morgart, 412 So. 2d 950, 951 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982)).

   Affirmed.

WARNER, GROSS and DAMOORGIAN, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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