Manuel Figueroa and Noemi Figueroa v. Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company

Summary

The Sixth District Court of Appeal of Florida affirmed the circuit court's decision in favor of Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company. The court held that the appellants' newly asserted legal arguments were unpreserved because they were not raised at trial and were presented for the first time in motions for rehearing.

Holdings

1. An appellate court will not consider a claim based on a specific legal ground that was not raised at trial, and new and different arguments first raised in a denied motion for rehearing are unpreserved.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the appellate court could consider a specific legal ground or a new and different argument that was not raised at trial and was first presented in a denied motion for rehearing.

Disposition

affirmed