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BOORDE v. LONE STAR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

No. BH-19.

493 So.2d 506 (1986)

Oliver BOORDE, As State Registrar, and Director of the Office of Vital Statistics, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services of the State of Florida and Faye Criss Driggers, Appellants, v. LONE STAR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied September 29, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Patterson, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, for appellee HRS.

John Sanders, of Hunter, Pattillo, Marchman & Sanders, Winter Park, for appellant Faye Criss Driggers.

Martin B. Unger and Elizabeth Croft Jewett, of Swann, Haddock, Cobb & Cole, Orlando, for appellee Lone Star Life.

Clifford D. Edelston, of Gurney & Handley, Orlando, for appellee Columbus Mut. Life Ins. Co.

BARFIELD, Judge.

By this appeal we are asked to determine if the State Registrar and Director of the Office of Vital Statistics, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services of the State of Florida is authorized to record a certificate of death based upon a presumptive death occurring in international waters. The trial judge held that he does not have such authority. We affirm.

Appellants asked us to construe section 382.10 when read in conjunction with...

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