DAVID INVERNIZZI AND EDWARD SHERMAN, APPELLANTS,

v.

JESSIE S. DEWLOW, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Agrofollajes, S.A. v. E.I. DU Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., 48 So. 3d 976 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010)
  …equisite that the prior claims were substantially similar to those in the instant case. Failure to lay a sufficient predicate establishing substantial similarity renders the evidence irrelevant as a matter of law. See Ford Motor Co. v. Hall-Edwards, 971 So. 2d 854, 860 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007).3 The record demonstrates that the plaintiffs proffered that the only similarity between the many claims is that they involved the same product, Benlate. That is not enough to allow admission here. Evidence should not be admi…
• Ford Motor Co. v. Hall-Edwards, 997 So. 2d 1148 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008)
  …esign of the vehicle’s stability and handling and that this was a legal cause of the accident. The jury awarded $30 mil [*1150] lion to Hall’s mother, Joan Hall-Edwards, and $30 million to his father, Lester Hall. See Ford Motor Co. v. Hall-Edwards, 971 So. 2d 854, 855 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007). We reversed that award because the trial court committed reversible error in permitting testimony referencing other rollover accidents involving the Ford Explorer without requiring a showing of substantial similarity between…
• Hogan v. Gray Gable, 30 So. 3d 573 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010)
  …ntially similar circumstances. Id. (citing Ry. Express Agency, Inc. v. [*575] Fulmer, 227 So. 2d 870, 873 (Fla.1969); Ba-chanov, 436 So. 2d at 236; and Warn Indus. v. Geist, 343 So. 2d 44 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977)); see also Ford Motor Co. v. Hall-Edwards, 971 So. 2d 854, 860 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007) (holding that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting evidence of past accidents where a substantial similarity between the accident at issue and the past accidents had not been established). Appellee relies on Ja…

Authorities Cited

• Ophelia Brown v. McKINNON, 964 So. 2d 173 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007)