HUMANA HEALTH PLANS v. LAWTON

No. 95-176.

675 So.2d 1382 (1996)

HUMANA HEALTH PLANS, Appellant, v. Heather LAWTON, etc., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied July 10, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tristan W. Sanders, Orlando, for Appellant.

Ava F. Tunstall and Joseph R. Flood, Jr., of Dean, Ringers, Morgan and Lawton, P.A., Orlando, for Appellees.


PETERSON, Chief Judge.

Humana Health Plans appeals the denial of its motion to intervene in a products liability suit brought by Heather Lawton for the benefit of her son, Brandan Wormsbacher. We reverse.

Four-year-old Brandan was injured by the blades of a riding mower operated by his mother's boyfriend. Lawton sued the manufacturer and the distributor of the mower, and a garden center which had allegedly serviced the mower the day before the accident. Eventually...

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