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

UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Celia VALE, Appellee.
    No. 3D01-1702.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Feb. 20, 2002.
    Rehearing Denied March 22, 2002.
    Perez, Goran and Rodriguez and Luis N. Perez, Coral Gables, for appellant.
    H. Dillon Graham, III, Coral Gables; Philip Glatzer and David R. Howland, Coral Gables, for appellee.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and JORGENSON, J., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Resnick, 636 So.2d 75 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994); Aries Ins. Co. v. Cayre, 785 So.2d 656 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001).

JORGENSON, J., and NESBITT, Senior Judge, concur.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge

(dissenting).

In this case involving the efficacy of a claimed notice of policy cancellation, I would reverse the judgment for the insured for a new trial because I believe the trial court prejudicially erred in denying the appellant’s requested instruction concerning the rebuttable “presumption that mail properly addressed, stamped and mailed was received by the addressee.” Brown v. Giffen Industr., Inc., 281 So.2d 897, 900 (Fla.1973); accord Service Fire Ins. Co. v. Markey, 83 So.2d 855 (Fla.1955); Moses v. Bystrom, 489 So.2d 834 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986); Brake v. State Unemployment Appeals Comm’n, 473 So.2d 774 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985); Berwick v. Prudential Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co., 436 So.2d 239 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983).