in addition to the amount of actual damages is not permitted. Accordingly, the amount awarded to Rogers for the civil theft count must be reversed. On remand, the trial court shall perform its ministerial act of calculating the proper amount of treble damages and enter a judgment for that amount. See McArthur Dairy, Inc. v. Original Kielbs, Inc., 481 So.2d 535, 541 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986) (“[T]he law is clear that a jury is not authorized to award treble damages under Section 812.035(7), Florida Statutes (Supp. 1984). Instead, only the trial court is authorized to award such damages in a post-trial order wherein the jury’s award of compensatory damages is trebled as a purely ministerial act.”); Senfeld v. Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Co. (Cayman) Ltd., 450 So.2d 1157, 1166 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984) (<HOLDING>). That calculation simply requires a reduction
holding that a plaintiff could recover actual damages under the tcpa for loss of credit if the plaintiff submitted sufficient proof of the amount damages requested holding that when a trial court determines that the amount of damages awarded by a jury is excessive the court may either suggest remittitur or grant a new trial on the issue of damages holding that court of appeals erred by rendering judgment for full amount of attorneys fees sought after reversing 0 fee award because jury awarded less in damages than amount sought and therefore uncontroverted attorney testimony on amount of attorneys fees did not establish amount of reasonable and necessary fees as a matter of law holding that in civil theft claim once jury sets the amount of actual damages it is a ministerial act for the trial court to triple those damages and enter final judgment in that amount holding that a liquidated damages amount set by contract is enforceable where the amount bears a reasonable relation to the damages actually sustained