Case Name: Louise JACKSON and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, a/k/a U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Appellants, v. CEDARS OF LEBANON HOSPITAL CORPORATION, a Florida Corporation, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-06-16
Citations: 399 So. 2d 542
Docket Number: No. 81-317
Parties: Louise JACKSON and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, a/k/a U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Appellants, v. CEDARS OF LEBANON HOSPITAL CORPORATION, a Florida Corporation, Appellees.
Judges: Before HUBBART, C. J., and HENDRY and SCHWARTZ, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 399
Pages: 542–543

Head Matter:
Louise JACKSON and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, a/k/a U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Appellants, v. CEDARS OF LEBANON HOSPITAL CORPORATION, a Florida Corporation, Appellees.
No. 81-317.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
June 16, 1981.
George P. Telas, for appellants.
Jack R. Maro, Miami, for appellees.
Before HUBBART, C. J., and HENDRY and SCHWARTZ, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The order requiring the defendant Jackson to answer the amended complaint is reversed because service of process, under the long arm statute or otherwise, has not been actually effected upon her. The appellant did not waive this jurisdictional requirement merely by filing an anticipatory motion to dismiss which unsuccessfully (and incorrectly) asserted that the long-arm provisions specifically invoked in the amended complaint could not, as a matter of law, be employed as to the claim in question. See, Huffman v. Heagy, 122 So.2d 335 (Fla.3d DCA 1960).