Hess v. Walton

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a statute is “ ‘ambiguous’ when its language may permit two or more outcomes”
• noting that if there had been a settlement with the vicariously liable defendant, the lawsuit would not have ended
• \A statute is normally regarded as 'ambiguous' when its language may permit two or more outcomes.\
• “It is the long-standing precedent of this Court that statutes and rules authorizing attorney fees or imposing penalties are to be strictly construed as written and not extended by implication. (quoting Sarkis v. Allstate Ins. Co., 863 So. 2d 210, 224 (Fla. 2003))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).