VEGA v. INDEPENDENT FIRE INS. CO.

No. 94-425.

651 So.2d 743 (1995)

Awilda VEGA and Justino Vega, Jr., etc., Appellants, v. INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

March 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart G. Greenberg, P.A., Miami, and Russo & Talisman, P.A., Coconut Grove, for appellants.

Robert K. Rouse, Jr., Smith, Schoder, Rouse & Bouck, P.A., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

This appeal concerns the refusal of the trial court to give the following requested jury instruction:

If an insurance company undertakes its own investigation, it must perform that investigation with reasonable diligence, and the company will be viewed as having all of the knowledge which that diligent investigation might have turned up. Fecht v. Makowski, 172 So.2d 468, 471 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965)....

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