
    MEISTER FINANCIAL GROUP, INC., Appellant, v. AMERICAN FIDELITY FIRE INSUR. CO., Equinamics, Assignee of American Fidelity Fire Insurance Company, Appellees.
    No. 97-2861.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    April 1, 1998.
    Rehearing Denied April 29, 1998.
    Marc A. Ben-Ezra, N. Miami Beach, for appellant.
    Spear & Hoffman and Iris G. Hernandez, Coral Gables, for appellees.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and GREEN, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Without reaching the merits of the underlying controversy, the judgment below is affirmed on an application of the doctrine of res judicata. See Gomez-Ortega v. Dorten, Inc., 670 So.2d 1107 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996); ICC Chem. Corp. v. Freeman, 640 So.2d 92 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994); Posnansky v. Breckenridge Estates Corp., 621 So.2d 736 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993); Commercial Laundries, Inc. v. Golf Course Towers Assocs., 568 So.2d 501 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990); Pan Am. Bank of Miami v. City of Miami Beach, 198 So.2d 45 (Fla. 3d DCA 1967).  