Case Name: Harry RUBIN, Appellant, v. FLORIDA INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION, INC., Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1992-10-06
Citations: 606 So. 2d 699
Docket Number: No. 91-1958
Parties: Harry RUBIN, Appellant, v. FLORIDA INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION, INC., Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and GERSTEN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 606
Pages: 699–700

Head Matter:
Harry RUBIN, Appellant, v. FLORIDA INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION, INC., Appellee.
No. 91-1958.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Oct. 6, 1992.
Rehearing Denied Nov. 10, 1992.
Simon Schindler & Sandberg and Theodore R. Dempster, Miami, for appellant.
Walton Lantaff Schroeder & Carson and John Patrick Joy, Miami, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and GERSTEN, JJ.

Opinion:
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
Contrary to the holding below, we conclude that the appellee's policy designated the defendant in the underlying tort action, who was an officer and managing agent of the named insured, as an additional insured and did not contain an applicable exclusion or exception. It therefore covered and required the carrier to defend the Streeter ltype claim in question. See Seward v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 261 F.Supp. 805 (S.D.Fla.1966), aff'd, 392 F.2d 723 (5th Cir.1968); General Aviation Supply Co. v. Insurance Co. of North America, 181 F.Supp. 380 (E.D.Mo.1960), aff'd, 283 F.2d 590 (8th Cir.1960); Zenti v. Home Ins. Co., 262 N.W.2d 588 (Iowa 1978); see generally Stuyvesant Ins. Co. v. Butler, 314 So.2d 567 (Fla.1975).
There is also no merit in FIGA's fail-back position that the case is moot. Losicco v. Aetna Casualty & Sur. Co., 588 So.2d 681 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991); Gibson v. Walker, 380 So.2d 531 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980).
Accordingly, the judgment is reversed with directions to enter a judgment on coverage for the appellant and to assess attorney's fees for services rendered below and on appeal. Section 627.428, Fla.Stat. (1991).
Reversed and remanded.
. See Streeter v. Sullivan, 509 So.2d 268 (Fla.1987).