Hough v. Huffman

How courts have described this case

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• holding: “Failure to allow a cost award to a prevailing defendant who is insured, because of the fact of insurance coverage alone, gives the plaintiff, and/or the plaintiffs insurance carrier, an undeserved windfall.”
• despite insurer’s payment of prevailing party’s costs, prevailing party could still receive costs under statutory provision granting costs to “party recovering judgment”
• and disapproving the cases relied upon by the plaintiff: Aspen v. Bayless, 552 So.2d 298 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989); Turner v. D.N.E., Inc., 547 So.2d 1245 (Fla. 4th DCA 1989); and City of Boca Raton v. Boca Villas Corp., 372 So.2d 485 (Fla. 4th DCA 1979)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).