D.R. MEAD & CO. v. CHESHIRE OF FLORIDA, INC.

Nos. 85-618, 85-723.

489 So.2d 830 (1986)

D.R. MEAD & CO., a Florida Corporation, and Robert Weise, Appellants, v. CHESHIRE OF FLORIDA, INC., a Florida Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied June 27, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McDermott, Will & Emery and James E. Betke, Chicago, Ill., and Catherine A. Gaudreau, Miami, for appellants.

Maurice Rosen, Young, Stern & Tannenbaum and Glen Rafkin, North Miami Beach, for appellee.

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


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Cheshire of Florida, Inc., the operator-lessee of a Hallandale discotheque which was destroyed by a deliberately-set fire, lost a federal court suit on a $700,000 loss of contents claim against its fire insurer, Pine Top Insurance Company. The jury in that case found — without reaching the carrier's other defenses, including that of arson — that Cheshire had made material misrepresentations in securing the coverage. Cheshire thereupon...

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