Case Name: Linda M. KING, Petitioner, v. AIG LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, and April Ann Hawkins Dodd as personal representative of the estate of Robert A. Hawkins, deceased, Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-05-04
Citations: 525 So. 2d 453
Docket Number: No. 88-619
Parties: Linda M. KING, Petitioner, v. AIG LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, and April Ann Hawkins Dodd as personal representative of the estate of Robert A. Hawkins, deceased, Respondents.
Judges: WIGGINTON, ZEHMER and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 525
Pages: 453–454

Head Matter:
Linda M. KING, Petitioner, v. AIG LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, and April Ann Hawkins Dodd as personal representative of the estate of Robert A. Hawkins, deceased, Respondents.
No. 88-619.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
May 4, 1988.
Rehearing Denied June 8, 1988.
David M. Wisenfeld of Dawson, Dalant, Sulik, Wisenfeld & Bickner, Jacksonville, for petitioner.
Thomas F. McMorrow of Kent, Haden, Facciolo & McMorrow, Jacksonville, for respondent AIG Life Ins.
Joseph M. Ripley, Jacksonville, for respondent April Ann Hawkins Dodd.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Petitioner seeks review of an order granting AIG Life Insurance Company's motion for leave to file an amended complaint for interpleader after entry of the final judgment. Respondent has offered no authority and this court has not found independently any authority for allowing amendment of a complaint after entry of the final judgment. Accordingly, the petition for writ of certiorari is granted and the order allowing amendment of the original complaint after entry of final judgment below is vacated with directions that the final judgment be reinstated. Our ruling in this case does not pass upon the right of the estate of Robert A. Hawkins to commence an independent action to establish its interest in the proceeds of the life insurance policy.
WIGGINTON, ZEHMER and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.