The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . for negligence by an unlicensed contractor, seeking treble damages and attorneys’ fees under section 768.0425 . . . penalty for Appellant’s violations of the law is not treble damages and attorneys’ fees under section 768.0425 . . .
. . . Comet sued, in relevant part, for disgorgement of overcharges and treble damages under section 768.0425 . . . We affirm all issues but the trial court’s application of section 768.0425 against Omer individually. . . . For the purpose of trebling damages, section 768.0425(1) separately defines “contractor” as “any person . . . HCM and Comet, therefore, Omer did not “contract[ ] to perform” any service as required by section 768.0425 . . . We narrowly construe the language “person who contracts to perform” in section 768.0425(1), as treble . . .
. . . also claimed the contractor was unlicensed and therefore was liable for damages pursuant to section 768.0425 . . . arose as to whether the plaintiff had properly pled his claim for treble damages pursuant to section 768.0425 . . .
. . . Although Reyes attempts to save the verdict by suggesting that pursuant to section 768.0425, Florida . . .
. . . court also erred in striking the claim for treble damages and attorney’s fees recoverable under section 768.0425 . . . Section 768.0425(2) allows the owner to recover three times its actual compensatory damages, in addition . . . The only support for this position is. the fact that section 768.0425 is part of Chapter 768, which is . . .
. . . . § 768.0425, Fla. Stat. (1999); HTP, Ltd. v. . . .
. . . In 1988, legislators moved this provision to section 768.0425 and, thereby, removed from chapter 489 . . .