Court Opinion

ID: 9840802
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-20 14:05:33.1571+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:24:04.864139
License: Public Domain

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA
                       SECOND DISTRICT

                         REBECCA L. HALLING,

                               Appellant,

                                    v.

                GARRISON PROPERTY AND CASUALTY
                      INSURANCE COMPANY,

                                Appellee.

                             No. 2D22-2045

                          September 20, 2023

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County; Rex M. Barbas,
Judge.

Gabriella E. Lopez and Raymond A. Haas of HD Law Partners, Tampa, for
Appellant.

Ezequiel Lugo and Chris W. Altenbernd of Banker Lopez Gassler P.A.,
Tampa, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.
     Affirmed. See Citizens Prop. Ins. Corp. v. Manor House, LLC, 313
So. 3d 579, 583-84 (Fla. 2021) ("[E]xtra-contractual, consequential
damages are not available in a first-party breach of insurance contract
action because the contractual amount due to the insured is the amount
owed pursuant to the express terms and conditions of the insurance
policy."); Covington v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 330 So. 3d 943, 946-47
(Fla. 4th DCA 2021) (applying Manor House and determining that the
insured was unable to recover extra-contractual, consequential damages
in a first-party action for breach of an automobile insurance policy).

SILBERMAN, KELLY, and SMITH, JJ., Concur.

Opinion subject to revision prior to official publication.

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