STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. LAFORET

No. 83537.

658 So.2d 55 (1995)

STATE FARM Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Petitioner, v. Veronica Ann Laforet, et vir, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher, Law Offices of Kubicki Draper, Miami, for petitioner.

George H. Moss, Moss, Henderson, Van Gaasbeck, Blanton & Koval, P.A., Vero Beach, Jane Kreusler-Walsh, Jane Kreusler-Walsh, P.A., West Palm Beach, for respondents.

George A. Vaka, Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal & Banker, P.A., Tampa, amicus curiae for Florida Defense Lawyers Ass'n, Nationwide Ins. Companies and Nat. Ass'n of Independent Insurers.

Louis K. Rosenbloum, Levin, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, P.A., Pensacola, amicus curiae for Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.

James K. Clark, Clark, Sparkman, Robb & Nelson, Miami, amicus curiae for Government Employees Ins. Co.


OVERTON, Justice.

We have for review State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. LaForet, 632 So.2d 608, 609 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993), in which the district court certified the following question as one of great public importance:

WHETHER AMENDED SECTION 627.727(10), FLORIDA STATUTES (SUPP. 1992), IS A REMEDIAL STATUTE AND HAS RETROACTIVE APPLICATION.

We have jurisdiction under article V, section 3(b)(4), of...

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