Case Name: Rabbi Israel POLEYEFF, as personal representative of the estate of Eugenie Poleyeff, deceased, and Frederica E. Breaux, as administratrix of the estate of Zachary Charles Breaux, deceased, Appellants, v. CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2002-06-12
Citations: 818 So. 2d 672
Docket Number: Nos. 3D00-3536, 3D00-3405
Parties: Rabbi Israel POLEYEFF, as personal representative of the estate of Eugenie Poleyeff, deceased, and Frederica E. Breaux, as administratrix of the estate of Zachary Charles Breaux, deceased, Appellants, v. CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, Appellee.
Judges: Before COPE, GREEN and SORONDO, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 818
Pages: 672–679

Head Matter:
Rabbi Israel POLEYEFF, as personal representative of the estate of Eugenie Poleyeff, deceased, and Frederica E. Breaux, as administratrix of the estate of Zachary Charles Breaux, deceased, Appellants, v. CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, Appellee.
Nos. 3D00-3536, 3D00-3405.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
June 12, 2002.
See also 782 So.2d 422.
Grossman & Roth; Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Per-win, and Joel Eaton; Abramowitz & Pom-erantz; and Nancy Little Hoffman, for appellants.
Holland & Knight and Daniel S. Pearson and Christopher N. Bellows; Murray Dubbin, for appellee.
Before COPE, GREEN and SORONDO, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Rabbi Israel Poleyeff, as personal representative of the estate of Eugenie Poleyeff, and Frederica Breaux, as administratrix of the estate of Zachary Breaux, appeal from separate final summary judgments entered in favor of the City of Miami Beach.
On the authority of this Court's en banc decision in Poleyeff v. Seville Beach Hotel Corp., 782 So.2d 422 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001), review denied, Nos. 01-1227, 01-1228, 817 So.2d 849 (Fla. March 22, 2002), we hold that "an entity which does not control the area or undertake a particular responsibility to do so has no common law duty to warn, correct, or safeguard others from naturally occurring, even if hidden, dangers common to the waters in which they are found." Id. at 424. '
Affirmed.
GREEN and SORONDO, JJ., concur.
. The facts in the present case are accurately set forth in this Court's first Poleyeff opinion, and in part I of Judge Cope's dissent herein.
. We reiterate our agreement with the dictum in our first Poleyeff opinion, "that drowning because of a natural characteristic of the very waters in which it occurs is simply one of the perhaps rapidly diminishing set of circumstances for which, without more, no human being or entity should be considered "to blame," deemed "at fault" or, therefore, held civilly liable. While the law of torts may properly serve to distribute risks among those whom society, speaking through the courts, holds responsible for a particular unwelcome event, it should not be employed to assign fault — with the result that the transfer of money is required — when none can be fairly said to exist. In this instance, in other words, because there is no wrong, there can be no remedy." Id. at 425.