ALLSTATE FIRE & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY v. COMPREHENSIVE SPINE CENTER

Opinion

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT

ALLSTATE FIRE & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant,

v.

COMPREHENSIVE SPINE CENTER, PLLC a/a/o MAUREEN BAJON, Appellee.

No. 4D21-464

[July 7, 2021]

Appeal from the County Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Florence Taylor Barner, Judge; L.T. Case Nos. COCE 17-357 and CACE 19-7022.

Garrett A. Tozier of Shutts & Bowen LLP, Tampa, and Daniel E. Nordby of Shutts & Bowen LLP, Tallahassee, for appellant.

John C. Daly and Matthew C. Barber of Daly & Barber, P.A., Plantation, for appellee.

ON CONFESSION OF ERROR

PER CURIAM.

Based on the Third District’s recent decision in Priority Medical Centers, LLC v. Allstate Insurance Co., No. 3D20-291, 2021 WL 1652024 (Fla. 3d DCA Apr. 28, 2021), appellee Comprehensive Spine Center, PLLC a/a/o Maureen Bajon filed a confession of error in this case. We accept the confession of error and reverse and remand for entry of final summary judgment in appellant Allstate’s favor. See Allstate Fire & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Katzell, No. 4D21-1044, 2021 WL 2559656 (Fla. 4th DCA June 23, 2021); Allstate Fire & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Downtown Surgery Ctr., No. 4D21-600, 2021 WL 2692184 (Fla. 4th DCA June 30, 2021).

Reversed and remanded.

CIKLIN, FORST, and KLINGENSMITH, JJ., concur.

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FINAL UPON RELEASE; NO MOTION FOR REHEARING WILL BE ENTERTAINED; MANDATE ISSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH OPINION.