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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PROGRESSIVE SELECT INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FLORIDA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER a/a/o Louis Pena, Respondent.
    Case No. 5D16-2334
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    Opinion filed November 17, 2017
    Douglas H. Stein, of Bowman and Brooke, LLP, Coral Gables, for Petitioner.
    Chad A. Barr, of Law Office of Chad A. Barr, P.A., Altamonte Springs, for Respondent.
    Lawrence' M. Kopelman, of Lawrence M. Kopelman, P.A., Fort Lauderdale and Mac S. Phillips and Chris Tadros, of Phillips Tadros, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, as Amicus Curiae Floridians for Fair Insurance, Inc.
   PER CURIAM.

Progressive Select Insurance Company (hereinafter “Progressive”) petitions this court for a writ of certiorari, seeking to quash an opinion issued by the Circuit Court for Orange County, sitting in its appellate capacity, which affirmed the final judgment entered by the County Court. We deny the petition based upon the reasoning set forth in our opinion in Progressive Select Insurance v. Florida Hospital Medical Center A/A/O Jonathan Parent, No. 5D16-2333, 229 So.3d 901, 2017 WL 5503835 (Fla. 5th DCA Nov. 17, 2017).

PETITION DENIED.

SAWAYA and EDWARDS, JJ., concur.

PALMER, J., dissents, with opinion.

PALMER, J.,

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent for the reasons set forth in my dissent in Progressive Selective Insurance Co. v. Florida Hospital Medical Center A/A/O Jonathan Parent, No. 5D16-2333, 229 So.3d 901, 2017 WL 5503835 (Fla. 5th DCA November 17, 2017).