SANTIAGOHERRERA v. STOUT

No. 84-693.

470 So.2d 718 (1985)

Emelia SANTIAGOHERRERA, Appellant, v. Harvey R. STOUT and Consolidated American Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

On Rehearing June 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah C. Edens of Maher, Overchuck, Langa and Lobb, P.A., Orlando, for appellant.

Robert D. Keough of Woolfolk & Estes, P.A., Orlando, for appellees.


SHARP, Judge.

Santiagoherrera appeals from a final summary judgment denying her right to recover damages for personal injuries she incurred when Stout, in a tractor-trailer, rear-ended the city bus she was driving. The basis for the denial of Santiagoherrera's cause of action was her inability to meet the "threshold" requirements of the Florida no-fault insurance law.1 We reverse.

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