DEPT. OF INS., ETC. v. TEACHERS INS. CO.

No. 60573.

404 So.2d 735 (1981)

DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE, STATE OF FLORIDA, and Bill Gunter, Insurance Commissioner, Appellants, v. TEACHERS INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Order May 12, 1981.

Rehearing Denied November 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Y. Sumner and Edward L. Kutter, Dept. of Ins., Tallahassee, for appellants.

Leon H. Handley and Martin B. Unger of Gurner, Gurney & Handley, Orlando, for Teachers Ins. Co., Horace Mann Ins. Co., Cincinnati Ins. Co., and Queen City Indem. Co.; Earl B. Hadlow, John K. Aurell and Eleanor M. Hunter of Mahoney, Hadlow & Adams, Tallahassee, for Maryland Cas. Ins. Co., et al. and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, et al.; and Raymond Ehrlich and J. Stephen O'Hara, Jr. of Mathews, Osborne, Ehrlich, McNatt, Gobelman and Cobb, Jacksonville, for Travelers Indem. Co., et al., for appellees.


ORDER ACCEPTING JURISDICTION

The District Court of Appeal, First District, has certified, pursuant to article V, Section 3(b)(5) of the Constitution of Florida, that the order of the trial court passes upon a question of great public importance requiring immediate resolution by this Court. We accept jurisdiction.

ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON and McDONALD, JJ., concur.

ENGLAND, J., dissents with an opinion with which SUNDBERG, C.J., and ALDERMAN, J., concur...

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