USI FINANCIAL, INC., APPELLANT,

v.

HAROLD SCOTT, APPELLEE

Citator

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• Trianon Park Condo. Ass'n, Inc. v. City OF Hialeah, 468 So. 2d 912 (Fla. 1985)
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• Armas v. Metro. Dade Cnty., 429 So. 2d 59 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983)
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• Caterpillar Indus., Inc. v. Keskes, 639 So. 2d 1129 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994)
  …), reviews denied, 431 So. 2d 988; 431 So. 2d 989 (Fla.1983); Warn Indus. v. Geist, 343 So. 2d 44, 46 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977) (prior accident shown to be substantially similar allowed), cert. denied, 353 So. 2d 680 (Fla.1977); Town of Belleair v. Taylor, 425 So. 2d 669, 671 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983) (accident 4 years earlier is too remote and not substantially similar because it occurred on opposite side of intersection). As shown by Greene and Quinn, however, there must still be a connection between the discovery sough…

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• Health Application Sys., Inc. v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co. & State of Fla. Dep't of Health & Rehabilitative Servs., 381 So. 2d 294 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980)