GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY, PETITIONER,
v.
SUSAN GAIL JENKINS, RESPONDENT

Fla. | 1994-03-31
No. 81691
McDonald, shaw, grimes, kogan and HARDING, JJ., concur., BARKETT, C.J., concurs specially with an opinion.
637 So. 2d 911 Florida Supreme Court (1994) Negative Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
OVERTON, Justice.

OVERTON, Justice.

We quash the decision of the district court in Government Employees Insurance Co. v. Jenkins, 616 So. 2d 486 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993), on the authority of World Wide Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Welker, No. 80,478, — So. 2d — (Fla. Mar. 31, 1994), and remand for further proceedings consistent with our decision in Welker. It is so ordered.

McDonald, shaw, grimes, kogan and HARDING, JJ., concur. BARKETT, C.J., concurs specially with an opinion.

Concurrence
BARKETT, Chief Justice,

BARKETT, Chief Justice,

concurring specially.

I would have approved the decision of the district court for the reasons discussed in my dissent in World Wide Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Welker, — So. 2d — (Fla. Mar. 31, 1994). In light of this court’s decision in Welker, I concur with the majority.


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