Case Name: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1983-12-27
Citations: 443 So. 2d 305
Docket Number: No. 83-1338
Parties: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARK-DULL and BASKIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 443
Pages: 305–306

Head Matter:
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.
No. 83-1338.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Dec. 27, 1983.
Barnett & Clark and Ralph W. Symons, Goral Gables, for appellant.
Mitchell, Harris, Canning, Murray & Usich and C. Robert Murray, Jr., Miami, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARK-DULL and BASKIN, JJ.

Opinion:
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
It is apparent that the statute of limitations in an action pursuant to Sec. 627.- 736(3)(c), FIa.Stat. (1975) begins to run, at the latest, when the liability insurer improperly pays the claimant directly without protecting the interests of the PIP carrier. In this case, that event occurred in March, 1977, and the action was not brought until July 16, 1982. See Sec. 95.11(3)(f), (p), Fla. Stat. (1981) (four year statute). The order of dismissal under review is therefore
Affirmed.
. A personal protection insurer with a right of reimbursement under this section, if suffering loss from inability to collect such reimbursement out of a payment received by a claimant upon a tort claim, is entitled to indemnity from one who, with notice of the insurer's interest, made such a payment to the claimant without making the claimant and the insurer joint payees as their interests may appear....