JEDAK CORP.
v.
SEABREEZE

Fla. 5th DCA | 2018-04-09
No. 5D16-3777
Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2018)

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Holding

A landlord cannot recover damages for a tenant's breach of indemnification and insurance provisions when the landlord's insurer fully covers the losses.


Headnotes

[1] A landlord seeking damages for a tenant's breach of indemnification and insurance provisions must prove that the landlord incurred actual damages; full coverage by the la…

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Key Quotes

“where landlord's insurer fully covers loss, landlord suffers no compensable damages arising from tenant's breach of contract”

The court cited this principle from Cas. Indem. Exch. v. Penrod Bros., 632 So. 2d 1046, 1047 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993)

Facts & Procedural History

Jedak Corporation leased commercial premises from Seabreeze Office Associates under a written lease requiring the tenant to indemnify the landlord and…

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

In this action arising from a written commercial lease agreement, Appellee,

Seabreeze Office Associates, LLC (“Landlord”), obtained summary judgment for damages arising from the breach of contractual provisions requiring that Appellant, Jedak

Corporation d/b/a Razzle’s (“Tenant”), indemnify and provide insurance coverage to protect Landlord from losses arising from Tenant’s occupancy of the premises. Although

Tenant raises numerous issues on appeal, we need only address one, which we conclude is dispositive of this dispute. Because Landlord did not incur any damages that were caused by the breach of these particular lease provisions, the lower court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of Landlord and in denying summary judgment in favor of

Tenant. Accordingly, we reverse and remand this cause with directions that summary judgment be entered in favor of Tenant. See Cas. Indem. Exch. v. Penrod Bros., 632 So. 2d 1046, 1047 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993) (where landlord’s insurer fully covers loss, landlord suffers no compensable damages arising from tenant’s breach of contract).1

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

COHEN, C.J., PALMER and TORPY, JJ., concur.

Footnotes
1 Landlord’s insurer was not a party to this case.

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