RICHARD WADE AND MICHAEL WADE, APPELLANTS,

v.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Dorman K. Kimbrell v. Great Am. Ins. Co., 420 So. 2d 1086 (Fla. 1982)
  …rage. See Harris v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co., 569 F. 2d 850 (5th Cir.1978); Decker v. Great American Insurance Co., 392 So. 2d 965 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980), cert. denied, 399 So. 2d 1143 (Fla.1981); General Insurance Co. of Florida v. Sutton, 396 So. 2d 855 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981). It is true that a regulatory agency’s construction of a statute the agency is assigned to enforce is entitled to considerable weight. See, e.g., Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. v. Speed-Parker, Inc., 103 Fla. 439, 137 So. 72…
• Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Kauffman, 495 So. 2d 1184 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986)
  …d's right to uninsured motorist coverage within the limits required by the statute, “an applicant may not contest his signed rejection of coverage by contending that he signed the rejection without reading it,” General Ins. Co. of Florida v. Sutton, 396 So. 2d 855, 856 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981), unless he was prevented from reading it. Alejano v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., 378 So. 2d 104 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979). Absent exigent circumstances the insured is deemed to be bound by his signature on an informing appl…
• Realin v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 418 So. 2d 431 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982)
  …torist coverage in an amount at least equal to the limits of the bodily injury liability. Although an insurer has no duty to explain uninsured motorist coverage to an insurance applicant unless asked, General Insurance Company of Florida v. Sutton, 396 So. 2d 855 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981); Alejano v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, supra, there is a duty to inform the applicant of the availability of the higher limits and to offer those limits to him. Spaulding v. American Fire & Indemnity Company, 412 So.…

Authorities Cited

• Husted v. State, 370 So. 2d 853 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979)
• State v. Goodley, 381 So. 2d 1180 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980)