( December 14, 2023, 1:53 PM EST) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appeals court panel majority on Dec. 13 certified a question to the Florida Supreme Court regarding the state’s pleading requirement for punitive damages claims and reiterated in its substituted opinion that a trial court improperly granted residential community residents’ motions to amend their counterclaims to seek punitive damages against a fellow resident, his insurer and the insurer’s in-house counsel....