Title: Reid v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

352 So. 2d 1172 (1977)
Dawn Marie REID, etc., Petitioner,
v.
STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, etc., Respondent.
No. 51427.

Supreme Court of Florida.
October 31, 1977.
Rehearing Denied January 9, 1978.
S. Victor Tipton, Orlando, for petitioner.
James O. Driscoll, of Driscoll, Baugh, Langston, Layton & Kane, Orlando, for respondent.
HATCHETT, Justice.
This case comes to us by Petition for Writ of Certiorari to review a decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal[*] which allegedly conflicts with Lee v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 339 So. 2d 670 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1976) on the issue of whether an automobile can, at the same time, be both an insured and an uninsured motor vehicle due to the operation of Florida Statutes and a valid liability exclusion provision contained in an insurance policy. Article V, Section 3(b)(3). The Fourth District Court determined that it could not. We agree and adopt the well reasoned opinion of that Court authored by Judge Alderman, J.:
Subsequent to the entry of the Fourth District Court's decision in this case and, after we accepted jurisdiction, the Second District Court of Appeal had occasion to again address this issue in Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Fonck, 344 So. 2d 595 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1977), and in so doing distinguished its earlier opinion in Lee as follows:
Thus, the conflict between the two district courts of appeal is resolved.
Accordingly, the decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal is approved and the writ is discharged.
It is so ordered.
ADKINS, acting C.J., and BOYD, ENGLAND and KARL, JJ., concur.
[*]  Reid v. Allstate Insurance Co., 344 So. 2d 877 (Fla. 4th DCA 1977).