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GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Susan Gail JENKINS, Respondent.
    No. 81691.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    March 31, 1994.
    Rehearing Denied June 22, 1994.
    Melvin B. Wright and David B. Falstad of Gurney & Handley, P.A. Orlando, for petitioner.
    Edward A. Perse of Perse, P.A. & Ginsberg, P.A., and Nance, Cacciatore, Sisserson, et al., Miami, for respondent.
    Law Firm of Katz, Kutter, Haigler, Aider-man, Davis, Marks & Bryant, P.A., Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Nat. Ass’n of Independent Insurers.
    Louis K. Rosenbloum of Levin, Middle-brooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, P.A., Pensacola, amicus curiae for Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.
   OVERTON, Justice.

We quash the decision of the district court in Government Employees Insurance Co. v. Jenkins, 616 So.2d 486 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993), on the authority of World Wide Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Welker, No. 80,478, — So.2d — (Fla. Mar. 31, 1994), and remand for further proceedings consistent with our decision in Welker.

It is so ordered.

McDonald, shaw, grimes, kogan and HARDING, JJ., concur.

BARKETT, C.J., concurs specially with an opinion.

BARKETT, Chief Justice,

concurring specially.

I would have approved the decision of the district court for the reasons discussed in my dissent in World Wide Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Welker, — So.2d — (Fla. Mar. 31, 1994). In light of this court’s decision in Welker, I concur with the majority.