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LUMBERMENS MUT. CAS. CO. v. ACOSTA

No. 83-2756.

452 So.2d 1060 (1984)

LUMBERMENS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Julian Andres ACOSTA and Eugenia I. Acosta, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 10, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wicker, Smith, Blomqvist, Tutan, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Lane and Shelley H. Leinicke, Miami, for appellant.

Gerald E. Rosser, Miami, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.

JORGENSON, Judge.

The question before us is whether the adjective "dependent," as used in section 627.739, Florida Statutes (1979), has some meaning other than its standard English definition "[t]hat depends or has to rely on something else for support, supply, or what is needed," III Oxford English Dictionary 208-09 (1933).1 We hold that nothing in the statute under consideration redefines the word in question and, accordingly...

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