Court Opinion

ID: 9403600
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Date Created: 2023-06-21 15:06:16.76739+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:08.230035
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                         Opinion filed June 21, 2023.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                              No. 3D22-554
                     Lower Tribunal No. 19-17811 CC
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                United Automobile Insurance Company,
                             Appellant,

                                     vs.

                     Glen Hayward Stepherson, Jr.,
                              Appellee.

      An Appeal from the County Court for Miami-Dade County, Lawrence
D. King, Judge.

     Michael J. Neimand, for appellant.

     Douglas H. Stein, P.A., and Douglas H. Stein; The Billbrough Firm, and
G. Bartram Billbrough, for appellee.

Before EMAS, SCALES and LINDSEY, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. See Sec. Life & Tr. Co. v. Jones, 202 So. 2d 906, 908 (Fla.

2d DCA 1967) (“If an insurer makes an independent inquiry and the

circumstances are such that [the insurer] is in a position to ascertain the facts

by a reasonably diligent and complete search, [the insurer] is bound by what

a reasonably diligent and complete search would show.”).

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