Case Name: INTERNATIONAL PATROL AND DETECTIVE AGENCY COMPANY, INC., Petitioner, v. AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY, et al., Respondents
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-08-26
Citations: 419 So. 2d 323
Docket Number: No. 60525
Parties: INTERNATIONAL PATROL AND DETECTIVE AGENCY COMPANY, INC., Petitioner, v. AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY, et al., Respondents.
Judges: ALDERMAN, C. J., and BOYD, OVER-TON, SUNDBERG and McDONALD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 419
Pages: 323–324

Head Matter:
INTERNATIONAL PATROL AND DETECTIVE AGENCY COMPANY, INC., Petitioner, v. AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY, et al., Respondents.
No. 60525.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Aug. 26, 1982.
Richard M. Goldstein and Paul H. Amundsen of Peeples, Earl, Moore & Blank, Miami, for petitioner.
Richard Smoak of Isler, Brown, Smoak, Harrison & Nabors, Panama City, for Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co.
Edwin H. Underwood and Donald D. Gil-lis of Underwood, Gillis, Karcher, Reinert & Valle, Miami, for New Hampshire Ins. Co.
James E. Cobb and Harris Brown of Mathews, Osborne, McNatt, Gobelman & Cobb, Jacksonville, for respondents.

Opinion:
ADKINS, Justice.
We have for review a decision by the First District Court of Appeal (International Patrol and Detective Agency; Inc., v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company; New Hampshire Insurance Company; National Council on Compensation Insurance, 396 So.2d 774 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981)), which is certified to be in direct conflict with a decision of another District Court of Appeal. Paul v. Allstate Insurance Co., 380 So.2d 1307 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla.Const.
We approve the ruling by the First District Court of Appeal and adopt the reasoning therein as our own.
It is so ordered.
ALDERMAN, C. J., and BOYD, OVER-TON, SUNDBERG and McDONALD, JJ., concur.
ALDERMAN, C. J., concurs specially with an opinion, with which BOYD, OVER-TON and McDONALD, JJ., concur.
OVERTON, J., concurs specially with an opinion.