JAMES ROBERT LEWIS, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Hardy v. Am. S. Life Ins. Co., 211 So. 2d 559 (Fla. 1968)
  …ERVIN, Justice. Mrs. Estelle Hardy petitioned us for writ of certiorari to review the decision of the District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, in the case of American Southern Life Insurance Company v. Hardy, 202 So. 2d 98. [*560] It appears from the opinion of the District Court that Mrs. Hardy and her husband, Joseph B. Hardy, on March 1, 1962 jointly purchased a Buick automobile from Faircloth Buick Company of Tampa, Florida, under an installment contract. The purc…
• Wolk v. Lamar Life Ins. Co., 202 So. 2d 617 (Fla. 3d DCA 1967)
  …sonable and valid in Florida. Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company of Fla. v. Roddam, Fla.1955, 81 So. 2d 221; Gulf Life Insurance Company v. Green, Fla.1955, 80 So. 2d 321; American Southern Life Insurance Company v. Hardy, Fla.App.1967, 202 So. 2d 98, opinion filed August 14, 1967. The evidence is uncontradicted that, at the time the policy was issued, Dr. Wolk’s health was not as it was represented to be in the application. In fact, the record shows incontrovertibly that, at the time applicatio…
• Graham v. Lloyd's Underwriters AT London, 964 So. 2d 269 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007)
  …supply a policy which will effect the purpose intended. Any damage caused to the applicant through the agent’s mistakes or negligence in making inquiries that he should know to be pertinent should rest on the insurer. Am. S. Life Ins. Co. v. Hardy, 202 So. 2d 98, 102 (Fla. 4th DCA 1967) (Cross, J., dissenting) (quoting Vance on Insurance, § 89 (3d ed.1951)), quashed, 211 So. 2d 559, 561 (Fla.1968).4 Ambiguities in an application for insurance are construed liberally in favor of the insured and strictly aga…