VALENTE v. RESORT ENTERPRISES, INC.

Nos. 96-01485, 96-03437.

700 So.2d 732 (1997)

Arlene VALENTE, Appellant, v. RESORT ENTERPRISES, INC., and James Edward Bishop, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied October 30, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Stone of Associates & Bruce L. Scheiner, Fort Myers, and Thomas M. Pflaum, Micanopy, for appellant.

Richard A. Sherman of Richard A. Sherman, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, and Daniel W. Sheppard of Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., Fort Myers, for appellees.


PATTERSON, Judge.

Arlene Valente appeals from a final judgment awarding her $596.66 in damages in an automobile accident case. She argues that the jury was improperly permitted to consider the rule of comparative negligence. We agree and reverse.

The facts of the accident are simple. Valente was driving at fifteen to twenty-five miles per hour on a major thoroughfare when she was broadsided on the passenger side of her vehicle by Bishop's company truck while...

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