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VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC. v. LONG

No. 64785.

476 So.2d 1267 (1985)

VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC., Petitioner, v. Walter Leighton LONG, et ux., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied November 13, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Richard Caldwell, Jr., Dennis J. Wall and Michael R. Levin of Rumberger, Kirk, Caldwell, Cabaniss and Burke, Orlando, George N. Meros, Jr. of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith and Cutler, Tallahassee, and Michael Hoenig and Myron Shapiro of Herzfeld and Rubin, New York City, for petitioner.

S. Perry Penland of Penland, Penland, Pafford and Jones, Jacksonville, for respondents.

OVERTON, Justice.

This is a petition to review Volkswagen of America, Inc. v. Long, 444 So.2d 1084 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), in which the First District Court of Appeal held that the trial court properly excluded expert testimony regarding the causal connection between Walter Long's failure to wear his seat belt and the injuries he suffered when a tire on the Volkswagen Beetle in which he was riding had a blowout and the vehicle...

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