Case Name: CONFEDERATION LIFE ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. Eduardo Claudio Camp ALVAREZ, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1973-03-16
Citations: 276 So. 2d 95
Docket Number: No. 71-1073
Parties: CONFEDERATION LIFE ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. Eduardo Claudio Camp ALVAREZ, Appellee.
Judges: REED, C. J., and OWEN, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 276
Pages: 95–97

Head Matter:
CONFEDERATION LIFE ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. Eduardo Claudio Camp ALVAREZ, Appellee.
No. 71-1073.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
March 16, 1973.
Rehearing Denied April 26, 1973.
Phillip G. Newcomm, of Shutts & Bowen, Miami, for appellant.
William D. Rowland, Winter Park, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The insured under a life insurance policy issued and delivered in Havana, Cuba in 1944 was awarded a money judgment against the appellant-insurer payable in United States dollars in this country. The judgment also included an award for attorney's fees, interest and costs.
The total judgment was in the amount of $5,224.82. Of this sum, $1,200.-00 was awarded as reasonable attorney's fee. We have held that the statute permitting an award of attorney's fees (now Section 627.428, F.S.1971, F.S.A.) does not apply to a policy issued and delivered in Cuba. Pan-American Life Insurance Company v. Fuentes, Fla.App.1971, 258 So.2d 8. The final judgment in this case is modified by reducing same to the sum of $4,024.82, and as thus modified is affirmed on the authority of de Lara v. Confederation Life Association, Fla.1972, 257 So.2d 42, and Confederation Life Association v. Vega y Arminan, Fla.1968, 211 So.2d 169, approving Confederation Life Association v. Vega y Arminan, Fla.App.1968, 207 So.2d 33. See also Conte v. Confederation Life Association, Fla.1972, 272 So.2d 130.
Affirmed as modified.
REED, C. J., and OWEN, J., concur.
WALDEN, J., concurring in part, and dissenting in part with opinion.