Case ID: so2d_413/html/0138-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Appellant, v. Edwarda CASINO, Appellee.
    Nos. 81-1285, 81-1754 and 81-1862.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    April 27, 1982.
    Ligman, Martin, Shiley & McGee; Steven R. Berger, Miami, for appellant.
    Samuel Sheradsky, Miami, for appellee.
    Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and JOR-GENSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The trial court was correct both in dismissing the UM carrier’s action for declaratory relief, see, Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Johnson, 201 So.2d 705 (Fla.1967); Columbia Casualty Co. v. Zimmerman, 62 So.2d 338 (Fla.1952); Kelner v. Woody, 399 So.2d 35 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1981), and in awarding attorney’s fees to the appellee, who was the successful party in a proceeding brought under his uninsured motorist policy. The latter point is controlled by Florida Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. Co. v. Quinones, 409 So.2d 97 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1982); accord, Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Chavis, 410 So.2d 992 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1982); contra, Spaulding v. American Fire & Indemnity Co., 412 So.2d 367 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981). Accordingly, the judgment and orders under review are

Affirmed.