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Maurice SIRANTOINE and Pierette Sirantoine, individually and as husband and wife, Appellants, v. ILLINOIS EMPLOYERS INSURANCE OF WAUSAU, Appellee.
    No. 83-474.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Oct. 11, 1983.
    Wolfson & Diamond, P.A., Miami Beach, and Robert Polsky, Miami, for appellants.
    Kimbrell, Hamann, Jennings, Womack, Carlson & Kniskern, P.A., and John W. Wylie, Miami, for appellee.
    Before BARKDULL, NESBITT and JORGENSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse and remand with directions to enter judgment for the Sirantoines upon a holding that an excess insurer must offer uninsured motorist coverage equal to the excess limits of bodily injury liability, notwithstanding a rejection of uninsured motorist coverage in the primary policy. See First State Insurance Co. v. Stubbs, 418 So.2d 1114 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982), review denied, 426 So.2d 26 (Fla.1983); § 627.-727(1), Fla.Stat. (1981).

Reversed and remanded with directions to enter judgment for the defendants below.