Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Otavio Metzker
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The Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the Circuit Court ruling in Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Otavio Metzker (Case No. 062020CA020823AXXXCE, 4D2024-2852), with the per curiam panel consisting of Chief Judge Kuntz and Judges May and Sherman. The appeal was heard from Broward County's Seventeenth Judicial Circuit before Judge Keathan Briscoe Frink. No substantive legal reasoning is included in the opinion; it states only that the decision is not final until disposition of a timely-filed motion for rehearing.
“Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.”
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The Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the lower court ruling in favor of Otavio Metzker in his dispute with Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company. The per curiam opinion by Chief Judge Kuntz and Judges May and Sherman provides no substantive reasoning, as is common in affirmed cases with no dissenting position. The ruling is not final until any timely motion for rehearing is disposed of.
For insurers and policyholders, an affirmance preserves the lower court judgment and signals that the appellate court found no reversible error in the trial court's findings or procedures. The brevity of the opinion limits its precedential value, though parties considering further appeal to the Florida Supreme Court should evaluate whether a jurisdictional basis exists within the 30-day rehearing window.
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Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Otavio Metzker
District Court of Appeal of Florida
- Citations: None known
- Docket Number: 4D2024-2852
Disposition: Affirmed
Disposition
Affirmed
Combined Opinion
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
UNIVERSAL PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY,
Appellant,
v.
OTAVIO METZKER,
Appellee.
No. 4D2024-2852
[April 23, 2026]
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit,
Broward County; Keathan Briscoe Frink, Judge; L.T. Case No.
062020CA020823AXXXCE.
David A. Noel and Kara Rockenbach Link of Link & Rockenbach, P.A.,
West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Douglas H. Stein of Douglas H. Stein, P.A., Coral Gables, for appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed.
KUNTZ, C.J., MAY, J., and SHERMAN, JAMES, Associate Judge, concur.
Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.
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