Case Name: Robert SPIVAK and Andrea Spivak, Appellants, v. Helen Treadwell SHAW, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-02-10
Citations: 725 So. 2d 450
Docket Number: No. 98-1408
Parties: Robert SPIVAK and Andrea Spivak, Appellants, v. Helen Treadwell SHAW, Appellee.
Judges: Before COPE, LEVY and SHEVIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 725
Pages: 450–450

Head Matter:
Robert SPIVAK and Andrea Spivak, Appellants, v. Helen Treadwell SHAW, Appellee.
No. 98-1408
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 10, 1999.
Dean A. Mitchell, Miami, for appellants.
Kubicki Draper and Angela C. Flowers, Miami, for appellee.
Before COPE, LEVY and SHEVIN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We affirm the judgment in the defendant's favor. Here, unlike the facts in Kao v. Lauredo, 617 So.2d 775, 777 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993), there was no testimony that the rear end collision occurred because the accident happened "at a place and time where [a sudden stop] was reasonably expected . " The defendant, who was driving the rear vehicle, presented evidence that dissipated the presumption of negligence, and the presumption became only a "permissible inference which the jury may or may not draw from the evidence before it." Eppler v. Tarmac America, Inc., 695 So.2d 775, 777 (Fla. 1st DCA), review granted, 70S So.2d 8 (Fla.1997).
Judgement affirmed.