Case ID: so2d_490/html/0158-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Patricia A. ARNETTE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Annette E. Collins, Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.
    No. 85-919.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    June 17, 1986.
    Rehearing Denied July 21, 1986.
    Before the Circuit Court for Dade County; Leonard Rivkind, Judge.
    Carl Di Bernardo, Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Edward Perse, Miami, for appellant.
    
      Corlett, Killian, Hardeman, McIntosh & Levi and Leanne J. Frank, Miami, for ap-pellee.
    Before BARKDULL, BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

We approve the trial court holding that uninsured motorist coverage in this state does not include liability for punitive damages upon the authority of Suarez v. Aguiar, 351 So.2d 1086 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977).

Affirmed.