Case Name: Maybelle Hoffman BOYD, Executrix of the Estate of Virajune Evans Kausek, a/k/a Virajune G. Evans, Deceased, also formerly known as Mrs. V. G. Evans Kausek and Gerry Evans Kausek, et al., Appellants, v. PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL MUTUAL CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1967-02-07
Citations: 195 So. 2d 259
Docket Number: No. 243
Parties: Maybelle Hoffman BOYD, Executrix of the Estate of Virajune Evans Kausek, a/k/a Virajune G. Evans, Deceased, also formerly known as Mrs. V. G. Evans Kausek and Gerry Evans Kausek, et al., Appellants, v. PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL MUTUAL CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Appellee.
Judges: WALDEN, C. J., ANDREWS, J., and WILLSON, J. H., Associate Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 195
Pages: 259–259

Head Matter:
Maybelle Hoffman BOYD, Executrix of the Estate of Virajune Evans Kausek, a/k/a Virajune G. Evans, Deceased, also formerly known as Mrs. V. G. Evans Kausek and Gerry Evans Kausek, et al., Appellants, v. PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL MUTUAL CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Appellee.
No. 243.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Fourth District.
Feb. 7, 1967.
Rehearing Denied March 10, 1967.
Albert Yurko and David Kerben, Orlando, for appellants.
Leon H. Handley and O. Douglas Wolfe, Jr., of Gurney, Gurney & Handley, Orlando, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The circumstances in this case were of such a nature that a reasonably prudent person would know that an accidental death might have occurred. Appellant's failure to notify her insurer that the death had occurred, until some eight months later, was a breach of the contract of insurance that relieves the insurer of liability. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. v. Ranson, Fla.App.1960, 121 So.2d 175; Morton v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America, Fla.App.1962, 137 So.2d 618; Employers Casualty Company v. Vargas, Fla.App. 1964, 159 So.2d 875; American Fire and Casualty Company v. Collura, Fla.App. 1964, 163 So.2d 784.
There being no other material questions raised by appellant, the judgment of the court below is affirmed.
WALDEN, C. J., ANDREWS, J., and WILLSON, J. H., Associate Judge, concur.