Pepper's Steel & Alloys, Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a purpose of 627.428 “is to discourage insurance companies from contesting valid claims”
• “In Florida ... a settlement ... is the functional equivalent of a confession of judgment or a verdict in favor of the insured.”
• “[S]ince we did not remand the issue to the lower tribunal as permitted by Fl[orida] R[ule of] App[ellate] P[rocedure] 9.400(b), the trial court lacked jurisdiction to award fees for services related to the earlier appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).