HAINES v. SOUTHERN LIFE & HEALTH INS. CO.

No. 77-1244.

363 So.2d 175 (1978)

Georgia HAINES, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY, and Coastal States Life Insurance Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 11, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edna L. Caruso of Montgomery, Lytal, Reiter, Denney & Searcy, P.A., and George B. Mehlman, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Nancy J. Cliff and Edward N. Winitz of Thornton, Conroy & Herndon, Miami, for appellee — Southern Life & Health Ins. Co.

Marjorie D. Gadarian of Jones, Paine & Foster, P.A., West Palm Beach for appellee — Coastal States Life Ins. Co.


LETTS, Judge.

This appeal arises from a summary judgment upholding the denial, by two insurance companies, of accidental death benefits because the insured took 120 days from the date of the accident to die and the policy terms required death within 90 days. We affirm.

The appellant concedes that the present law in Florida, articulated by the Second District, would uphold such 90 day limitations. Stinchomb v. Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York,<...

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