BOYD v. PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL MUTUAL CAS. INS. CO.

No. 243.

195 So.2d 259 (1967)

Maybelle Hoffman BOYD, Executrix of the Estate of Virajune Evans Kausek, a/K/a Virajune G. Evans, Deceased, Also Formerly Known As Mrs. V.G. Evans Kausek and Gerry Evans Kausek, et al., Appellants, v. PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL MUTUAL CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, a Foreign Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied March 10, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Yurko and David Kerben, Orlando, for appellants.

Leon H. Handley and O. Douglas Wolfe, Jr., of Gurney, Gurney & Handley, Orlando, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The circumstances in this case were of such a nature that a reasonably prudent person would know that an accidental death might have occurred. Appellant's failure to notify her insurer that the death had occurred, until some eight months later, was a breach of the contract of insurance that relieves the insurer of liability. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. v. Ranson, Fla.App. 1960, 121 So.2d 175; Morton v. Indemnity...

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