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Fifth District: The Trouble With Trebles

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

Florida's civil theft statute allows a plaintiff to recover treble damages. Does that mean total damages are three times the actual damages amount or that three times the amount of actual damages should be added to the actual damages amount? The Fifth District answered that question here. The answer is that total damages are three times actual damages, not four times.

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).