Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-05-01 15:03:37.898708+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                          Opinion filed May 1, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                             No. 3D22-1944
                       Lower Tribunal No. 19-35400
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               People’s Trust Insurance Company,
                                  Appellant,

                                     vs.

                      Lazaro Armenteros, et al.,
                                 Appellees.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Peter R.
Lopez, Judge.

      Bickford & Chidnese, LLP, and Patrick M. Chidnese and Frieda C.
Lindroth (Tampa), for appellant.

     The Nation Law Firm, and Mark A. Nation and Paul W. Pritchard
(Longwood), for appellees.

Before SCALES, MILLER, and GORDO, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
     Affirmed. See Tower Hill Prime Ins. Co. v. Bermudez, 48 Fla. L. Weekly

D2240, 2023 WL 8246151, at *3 (Fla. 3d DCA Nov. 29, 2023) (affirming trial

court’s denial of insurer’s motion for directed verdict on policy’s soil

movement exclusion because based on experts’ testimony “jury could

reasonably have concluded that it was the shock waves, and not soil or earth

movement, that shook the house and caused damage to the Insured's

home”).

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