A March 27 ruling by Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal clarified the correct manner of applying contingency risk multipliers when determining attorney fees.

The appellate court affirmed a Miami-Dade trial court’s award of $213,548 in attorney fees to litigant Lidia Gonzalez in her legal action against Rene and Grace Pazmino. A defendant in a foreclosure, Gonzalez — who borrowed money and purchased real estate through the Pazminos in 2007 — alleged that she had been a victim of fraud. She claimed that although she had borrowed and bought the piece of real estate for $230,000, the Pazminos had given the property owners, on whose behalf they had sold the house, the impression that the property would be traded for $150,000.

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