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PROPRIETORS INS. CO. v. VALSECCHI

Nos. 80-739, 80-740, 80-744, 80-752, 80-753 and 80-2216.

435 So.2d 290 (1983)

PROPRIETORS INSURANCE COMPANY, Deland Aviation, Inc., O.R. Hunt, and Dean V. West, Appellants, v. John and Janet VALSECCHI, Individually and As Personal Representatives of the Estate of Robert J. Valsecchi and Ann and Richard Scileppi, Individually and As Personal Representatives of the Estate of Richard William Scileppi, and Caetano Da S. Vital, Administrator of the Estate of Lawrence J. Vital, Deceased, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied August 15, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniels & Hicks, Miami, Dolan, Fertig & Curtis, Fort Lauderdale, Kimbrell, Hamann, Jennings, Womack, Carlson & Kniskern and Arthur C. Miller, III and R. Owen Ricker, Jr., Miami, for appellants.

Podhurst, Orseck, Parks, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow & Olin, Rossman & Baumberger and Robert D. Peltz, Broad & Cassel, Miami, and F. Vernon Bennett, Wells, Gattis, Hallowes, Holbrook & Conway, Orlando, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and BASKIN, JJ.

BASKIN, Judge.

The issues presented in this appeal arose in the context of wrongful death claims resulting from an airplane crash. The primary issue questions the choice of law to be applied to the determination of liability and damages under conflict-of-law tests. This court must decide whether the trial court should have applied Florida or North Carolina law in determining liability and awarding damages. We have carefully analyzed conflict-of-law rules pertaining...

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