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OLD REPUBLIC INS. CO. v. WHITWORTH

No. 83-1911.

442 So.2d 1078 (1983)

OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY, a Foreign Corporation, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Lewis B. WHITWORTH, As Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Dade County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greene & Cooper and Joan M. Bolotin and Robyn Greene, Mottlau & Wakefield, Miami, for petitioner.

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Mallory H. Horton, Miami, for respondent.

Before HENDRY, NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

Old Republic Insurance Company, a compensation carrier, petitions for a writ prohibiting the respondent judge from exercising jurisdiction over a suit brought by a workers' compensation claimant against it for "gross negligence, outrage and punitive damages" arising out of the carrier's alleged willful breach of its obligations to make payments due the claimant under the Workers' Compensation Act. We grant the petition.

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