Case Name: Clover FINDLAY, Appellant, v. PFL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and Larry C. Heaton, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2002-01-16
Citations: 810 So. 2d 524
Docket Number: No. 3D01-2052
Parties: Clover FINDLAY, Appellant, v. PFL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and Larry C. Heaton, Appellees.
Judges: Before JORGENSON, LEVY and SHEVIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 810
Pages: 524–525

Head Matter:
Clover FINDLAY, Appellant, v. PFL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and Larry C. Heaton, Appellees.
No. 3D01-2052.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Jan. 16, 2002.
James, Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich and Terry Smiljanich, St. Petersburg, for appellant.
Isicoff, Ragatz & Koenigsberg and Eric Isicoff and Teresa Ragatz, Miami; Bryan Cave and Elizabeth Teutenberg and Robert T. Ebert, Jr., for appellees.
Before JORGENSON, LEVY and SHEVIN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Clover Findlay appeals an order dismissing with prejudice her claims against defendants PFL Life Insurance Co. and Larry Heaton based on the statute of limitations. We reverse.
Findlay's claims arose from the purchase of a policy from PFL; she alleges that she was led to believe that she had purchased a retirement plan. However, she learned in 1998 that the supposed re tirement plan was merely a life insurance policy with no retirement benefits. On the authority of Lopez-Infante v. Union Central Life Ins. Co., 809 So.2d 13, (Fla. 3d DCA 2002), which recites materially indistinguishable facts, we reverse the order and remand for further proceedings. The statute of limitations did not begin to run until Findlay "was no longer suffering 'consequent injuries' through the payment of premiums to [PFL] and, thus, the statute of limitations could not have possibly begun to run until as least 1998, or the year in which [Findlay] stopped paying premiums to [PFL], whichever is later." Lopez-Infante, 809 So.2d 13, 15.
Reversed and remanded.