Case Name: CHESAPEAKE HOUSE, INC., Appellant, v. LEE MUTUAL INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1970-09-11
Citations: 239 So. 2d 602
Docket Number: No. 69-572
Parties: CHESAPEAKE HOUSE, INC., Appellant, v. LEE MUTUAL INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., Appellee.
Judges: HOBSON, C. J., and LILES, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 239
Pages: 602–602

Head Matter:
CHESAPEAKE HOUSE, INC., Appellant, v. LEE MUTUAL INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., Appellee.
No. 69-572.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Sept. 11, 1970.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 15, 1970.
A. N. Spence, Miami, for appellant.
Robert T. Shafer, Jr., and James A. Franklin, Jr., of Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, Fort Myers, for appellee.

Opinion:
MANN, Judge.
An insurance broker is not, as a matter of law, the insured's agent for receipt of premium refund upon cancellation. Hermann v. Niagara Fire Ins. Co., 1885, 100 N.Y. 411, 3 N.E. 341. Whether the broker is agent as a matter of fact is not determined by the record on which summary judgment was entered. Agency, pleaded here, is yet to be determined. Miller v. Chase & Co., 1924, 88 Fla. 500, 102 So. 553. See 44 C.J.S. Insurance § 168; 44 Am.Jur.2d Insurance § 151 et seq.
Reversed and remanded.
HOBSON, C. J., and LILES, J., concur.