UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. GLEN HAYWARD STEPHERSON, JR.

Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed June 21, 2023.

Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D22-554

Lower Tribunal No. 19-17811 CC

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United Automobile Insurance Company, Appellant,

vs.

Glen Hayward Stepherson, Jr., Appellee.

An Appeal from the County Court for Miami-Dade County, Lawrence D. King, Judge.

Michael J. Neimand, for appellant.

Douglas H. Stein, P.A., and Douglas H. Stein; The Billbrough Firm, and G. Bartram Billbrough, for appellee.

Before EMAS, SCALES and LINDSEY, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Sec. Life & Tr. Co. v. Jones, 202 So. 2d 906, 908 (Fla.

2d DCA 1967) (“If an insurer makes an independent inquiry and the circumstances are such that [the insurer] is in a position to ascertain the facts by a reasonably diligent and complete search, [the insurer] is bound by what a reasonably diligent and complete search would show.”).