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Peter COSTA and Clara Costa, Appellants, v. KENT INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.
    No. 83-1169.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    June 5, 1984.
    Rehearing Denied July 16, 1984.
    
      Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Arnold Ginsberg; Gilmour, Morgan & Rosenblatt, Miami, for appellants.
    English, McCaughan & O’Bryan and Robert J. Schaffer, Coral Gables, for appel-lee.
    Before HUBBART and JORGENSON, JJ., and J. TILLMAN PEARSON (Ret.), Associate Judge.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse and remand for a new trial upon a holding that the trial court erred when it instructed the jury that the subject insurance policy would be “voided by the misrepresentation or concealment of a material fact ... even though [the insured] intended no fraud_” (Emphasis added.) Absent intent there can be no fraud. In re Estate of Donner, 364 So.2d 742 (Fla.3d DCA 1978).

Reversed and remanded for a new trial.