AUTO OWNERS INS. CO. v. VAN GESSEL

No. 94-04231.

665 So.2d 263 (1995)

AUTO OWNERS INSURANCE COMPANY and Owners Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Peter T. VAN GESSEL and Geanne M. Van Gessel, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Peter F. Van Gessel, Deceased and Marjorie Hough Carson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothy E. Hough Van Gessel, Deceased, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith J. Flanders and Donald G. Jacobsen of Lane, Trohn, Clarke, Bertrand, Vreeland & Jacobsen, P.A., Lakeland, for Appellants.

C. Kenneth Stuart, Jr. and Timothy O. Coyle, Lakeland, for Appellees.


RYDER, Acting Chief Judge.

The trial court entered summary final judgment in favor of the insureds in this declaratory judgment action involving the "family exclusion" clause of automobile liability and umbrella insurance policies. Because we hold that the abrogation of the doctrine of interspousal immunity did not invalidate the family exclusion clause, we reverse.

I. THE FACTS.

This lawsuit arose out of an automobile accident which occurred on...

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