Dealers Insurance Co. v. Centennial Casualty Co.

Full title: DEALERS INSURANCE COMPANY, INC., APPELLANT, v. CENTENNIAL CASUALTY…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District

Date published: May 19, 1995

654 So. 2d 676 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995)

Opinion

No. 94-1816.

May 19, 1995.

Non-Final Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County; Lawrence R. Kirkwood, Judge.

William Patrick Fulford and Curtis L. Brown of Wright, Fulford, Moorhead Wittek, P.A., Orlando, for appellant.

David S. McDonald of Fishback, Dominick, Bennett, Stepter, Ardaman Bonus, Orlando, for appellee.

THOMPSON, Judge.

AFFIRMED. See Dealers Ins. Co. v. Centennial Casualty Co., 644 So.2d 571 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994) (holding that bad check insurer, as subrogee of automobile auction operator, was an authorized claimant under statutorily required motor vehicle dealer surety bond), review denied, No. 84,928, ___ So.2d ___ (Fla. Apr. 12, 1995); see also Schwab Co. v. Breezy Bay, Inc., 360 So.2d 117 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978) ("The discretion reposed in the trial judge by Fla.R.Civ.P. 1.540 is of the broadest scope and in order to reverse a judge's ruling thereunder, there must be a showing of a gross abuse of discretion.").

COBB and GOSHORN, JJ., concur.