UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLANT,
v.
MIAMI DADE COUNTY MRI CORP., HEALTH DIAGNOSTIC OF MIAMI, LLC., D/B/A STAND UP MRI OF MIAMI HALLANDALE OPEN MRI, LLC., AND OPEN MRI OF MIAMI DADE, APPELLEES
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Affirmed. § 86.011, Fla. Stat. (2010) (“The circuit and county courts have jurisdiction within their respective jurisdictional amounts to declare rights.... ”); United Auto. Ins. Co. v. Kendall S. Med. Ctr., 54 So.3d 548 (Fla. 8d DCA 2011) (“[T]he Miami-Dade Circuit Court has jurisdiction of a declaratory action only if the amount in controversy exceeds $15,000 and only the county court has jurisdiction of any amount in controversy less than $15,000.”); Canonico v. Devine, 130 So.2d 319, 321 (Fla. 3d DCA 1961) (“Separate and unrelated demands cannot be joined to give jurisdiction to a court which does not have jurisdiction of any one of the claims because each is below the amount required to give jurisdiction to the court.”); see also § 627.428, Fla. Stat. (2010) (“Upon the rendition of a judgment or decree ... against an insurer and in favor of any named or omnibus insured ... the trial court ... shall adjudge ... in favor of the insured ... a reasonable sum as fees.”); Dawson v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., 233 So.2d 860, 861 (Fla. 3d DCA 1970) (insured entitled to a fee award upon dismissal of an action brought by insurer even though the same issue was then pending in an administrative proceeding).
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- Attilio G. Canonico and Mary E. Canonico v. Barney Devine, 130 So. 2d 319 (Fla. 3d DCA 1961)
- State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Swindoll, 54 So. 3d 548 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011)
- Dawson v. AETNA Cas. & Sur. Co., 233 So. 2d 860 (Fla. 3d DCA 1970)